Patents Examined by Lanee Reuther
  • Patent number: 9273199
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) composition that comprises at least a first high density polyethylene component having a density of 0.940-0.968 g/cm3 and a melt index I2.16 of 0.5-10.0 dg/min and a melt flow ratio (flow index I21.6 at 190° C. divided by melt index I2.16 at 190° C.) of at least 25. A second HDPE component may be included in the composition with melt index I2.16 of greater than 10 dg/min and melt flow ratio of 30 or less. The disclosed compositions are suitable for use in living hinge closure applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Christopher Domoy, Barrett Albert Unger, Mark T. Jablonka
  • Patent number: 9273154
    Abstract: The invention relates to an energy efficient, environmentally favorable process for the preparation of butyl ionomers that uses a common medium for both solution polymerization and subsequent bromination of butyl rubber. More particularly, the invention relates to a process that employs a common aliphatic medium for both solution polymerization and bromination of butyl rubber in the presence of a brominating agent and optionally for subsequent reaction with at least one nitrogen and/or phosphorus based nucleophile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LANXESS INTERNATIONAL SA
    Inventors: Carsten Kreuder, Adam Gronowski, John Lovegrove, Hanns-Ingolf Paul, Rolf Feller, Dana Adkinson, Phil Magill
  • Patent number: 9249280
    Abstract: The viscosity of solutions of nonionic synthetic associative thickeners is controlled by adding organophosphates to the solution of associative thickeners. The associative thickeners are hydrophobically modified polymers and the organophosphates include one or more hydrophobic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: HERCULES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bruce K. Fillipo, Tuyen T. Nguyen, Arjun C. Sau
  • Patent number: 9249283
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hollow glass microsphere and polymer composite having enhanced viscoelastic and rheological properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Tundra Composites, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt E. Heikkila, Rodney K. Williams, John S. Kroll
  • Patent number: 9242218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for heat treatment of a particulate thermoplastic material comprising a thermoplastic semi-crystalline polymer in the solid state in a single flow-through installation comprising one or more heating zones, wherein each heating zone comprises a contact heater consisting of an array of heating plates, the granulate material is transported as a moving packed bed in the flow-through installation, the process comprises one or more heating steps and in each heating step the particulate material is heated through contact heating via the contact heater, or one of the contact heaters, and optionally a flow of inert gas is applied in one or more heating zones with a mass ratio G/M of at most 2, wherein G is the inert gas flow in kg/hour and M is the particulate material flow in kg/hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventor: Eric Grolman
  • Patent number: 9238786
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alcohol-based stable and translucent fragrance composition containing a large amount of perfume. The fragrance composition of the present invention is a composition in which the total amount of (a) silicone oil and (b) ?-olefin oligomer that is a hydrogenated trimer, tetramer, pentamer, and/or hexamer of ?-olefin having 4 to 12 carbon atoms is 2 to 12% by mass in the composition, and the mass ratio of (b)/(a) is 0.1 to 0.7; the amount of (c) polyether-modified silicone with respect to (b) ?-olefin oligomer is 2 to 10 times in mass; the amount of (d) perfume is 3 to 30% by mass in the composition; the amount of (e) lower alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms is 50% by mass or more in the composition; the amount of (f) water is 3.5 to 15% by mass in the composition; and the L value of the composition is 70 to 95 provided the L value is a percentage (%) of strength of a transmitted light compared with a strength of an incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: Shiseido Company, Ltd., Shiseido International France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Koujiro Ojima, Tooru Sakura, Michel Sabadie, Benedicte Race, Karine De Chabannes
  • Patent number: 9217122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), wherein one R group is a hydrogen atom and the other is a hydrogen atom or a C1-3 alkyl group; and each carbon-carbon double bond of said compound, independently from each other, can be in a configuration Z or E or a mixture thereof; which are useful perfuming ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventor: Peter Fankhauser
  • Patent number: 9212336
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel fragrance compound, 3-methyl-benzofuran-5-ol, and a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of 3-methyl-benzofuran-5-ol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Geng, Michael G. Monteleone, Anubhav P. S. Narula
  • Patent number: 9187709
    Abstract: A novel odorant of formula (I) wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently selected from H, CH3, and C2H5; X is selected from —CH2OH, —CH2OCOCH3 and —CHO and —CHO, n is selected from 0 and 1. The dotted line represents double bond or single bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Kedar Ramesh Vaze
  • Patent number: 9187374
    Abstract: A NOx sensor 100 is produced by forming a stack with a ceramics paste including ceramic particles, a resin, a solvent, and one or more additives selected from additives of a first group having a first structure containing one or more selected from ether structures, urethane structures, hydroxy group-containing structures, ester structures, and acrylic structures and additives of a second group having any one or more structures of the additives of the first group and a second structure containing one or more selected from imidazoline structures, ethylenediamine structures, and amine structures. The ceramics paste contains any one of the additives of the first group and the second group and thus has an appropriate affinity for a cutting edge at the time of cutting a laminated body before the firing of the NOx sensor 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Omori, Koichi Iwata, Masahiro Abe
  • Patent number: 9174871
    Abstract: A composition includes a cement component and an amidyl pyranose component. A method of making the composition includes mixing a cement component with an amidyl pyranose component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: William Brenden Carlson, Gregory D. Phelan
  • Patent number: 9169372
    Abstract: A novel, low volatility, non-phthalate plasticizer/coalescent blend for use in paints and other polymeric coatings comprises a triblend of diethylene glycol dibenzoate, dipropylene glycol dibenzoate, and 1,2-propylene glycol dibenzoate. The triblend when used in a paint or other coatings achieves a low VOC paint or coating having stable viscosity after three freeze/thaw cycles and equivalent or superior wet edge/open time ratings, gloss ratings, scrub resistance and block resistance when compared to traditional coalescents, including without limitation high VOC coalescents, low VOC non-dibenzoate coalescents and other dibenzoate blends. The triblend may be used as a substitute or alternative coalescent in latex and acrylic emulsion coatings, among others, to achieve a lower VOC content without sacrificing performance properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: EMERALD KALAMA CHEMICAL, LLC
    Inventors: William D. Arendt, Emily L. McBride
  • Patent number: 9156774
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel carboxylic acid ester compound useful as a fragrance component or a material for a compound fragrance and a method for producing the same, and provides a fragrance composition including the carboxylic acid ester compound. The present invention also provides an acyl fluorides of a 2,4-dimethyl-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane compound and the esters thereof, useful as the raw materials (inclusive of the intermediates of organic synthesis), for example, for the medicines, agricultural chemicals, fragrances, functional resins, optical functional materials and electronic functional materials. The carboxylic acid ester compound of the present invention is a compound represented by the general formula (1). (In the formula, one of R1 and R2 is a methyl group and the other of R1 and R2 is —COOR, and R is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuharu Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9150710
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flameproof agent stabilizer combination containing, as component A 40-99 wt. % of a phosphinic acid salt of formula (I) and/or a diphosphinic acid salt of formula (II) and/or polymers thereof, wherein R1, R2 are the same or different and represent C1-C18-alkyl linear, branched or cyclic, C6-C18-aryl, C7-C18-arylalkyl and/or C7-C18-alkylaryl; R3 represents C1-C10-alkylene, linear or branched, C6-C10-arylene, C7-C18-alkylarylene or C7-C18-arylalkylene; M represents Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or a protoned nitrogen base; m represents 1-4; n represents 1-4; x represents 1-4, as component B 1-60 wt. % of a phosphinic acid salt of general formula (III) wherein R4 represents C1-C18-alkyl linear, branched or cyclic, C6-C18-aryl, C7-C18-arylalkyl or C7-C18-alkylaryl and M represents Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or a protonated nitrogen base, as component C 0-50 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Sebastian Hoerold, Harald Bauer
  • Patent number: 9139725
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition for automobile interior trim parts with superior paint adhesivity and low specific gravity. More specifically, a polypropylene resin composition for automobile interior trim parts having superior paint adhesivity and low specific gravity is disclosed, wherein a base resin including polypropylene, a propylene-ethylene copolymer or a mixture thereof is mixed with a reinforcer including magnesium hydroxide and an ethylene-butene elastomer. The present polypropylene resin composition allows for direct painting of an automobile interior trim part surface without primer treatment and provides excellent resistance to damage caused by impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motor Corporation, Daeha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Gyun Noh, Kyeong Hoon Jang, Hak Soo Kim, Han Ki Lee, Kyung Beom Seo, Han Pyol Kim, Im Taek Sung
  • Patent number: 9125802
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental curable composition which has excellent curability and which cures into a cured product that is less susceptible to discoloration by hydrogen sulfide in an oral environment. The present invention is a dental curable composition containing: a polymerizable monomer (a) having an acidic group, as a polymerizable monomer component; and a copper compound (b) and a benzotriazole compound (c) represented by the following general formula (1) and/or a benzimidazole compound (c) represented by the following general formula (2), as polymerization initiator components (symbols used in the formulae are as described in the description).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Mariko Sugiura, Mitsuru Takei
  • Patent number: 9120976
    Abstract: A fire retardant molding contains a thermoplastic compound and an inorganic flameproof agent that is mixed with the thermoplastic compound and which acts by separating from water, having a proportion in the range of 10 wt % to 90 wt %. The fire retardant molding is produced by mixing the thermoplastic material with an inorganic flame-proofing agent, the flame-proofing agent having a proportion in the range of 20 wt % to 80 wt %, and by outputting the compound obtained by mixing, in particular as a flat product. The fire retardant molding is advantageously used, for example, in or on land-based vehicles, water-based vehicles, aircraft and buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Akusta Unternehmensberatung
    Inventor: Uwe Stadter
  • Patent number: 9115330
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel diethyl-methyl-hexahydro-isobenzofuran compounds and a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of these novel compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    Inventors: Adam P. Closson, Ryan D. Oesterle, Nicole L. Giffin, Michael G. Monteleone
  • Patent number: 9115331
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel 3,3-diethyl-alkyl-2-oxa-spiro[4.5]dec-7-ene compounds and a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of these novel compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
    Inventors: Heedong Yun, Ryan D. Oesterle, Adam P. Closson
  • Patent number: 9107841
    Abstract: An aqueous cosmetic or dermatological preparation for application on wet or moist skin which is substantially emulsifier-free and comprises one or more lipophilic perfume ingredients, one or more lipophobic perfume ingredients, a weight ratio thereof being from about 0.5:1 to about 4:1, and at least about 13% by weight of microcrystalline wax, based on a total weight of the preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: BEIERSDORF AG
    Inventors: Isabel Balcke, Rainer Kroepke, Sabine Schulz, Christian Dingler