Patents Examined by Lee E Sanderson
  • Patent number: 11964447
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laminate of an olefin-type rubber, which is non-polar or has a small polarity and which is difficult to bond with a different material, and a rubber comprising Group 15 elements, which is a different kind of rubber. The laminate according to the present invention includes a structure including, in order, an olefin-type rubber layer (A); an adhesive resin layer (B) containing at least one selected from the group consisting of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, a silane-modified ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, an ethylene/acrylic acid copolymer and an ionomer thereof, and an ethylene/methacrylic acid copolymer and an ionomer thereof; and a layer (C) containing a rubber containing Group 15 elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kikuchi, Kotaro Ichino
  • Patent number: 11945939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a) a propylene homopolymer and/or a propylene copolymer consisting of at least 70.0 wt % of propylene monomer units and at most 30.0 wt % of comonomer units selected from ethylene monomer units and ?-olefin monomer units having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, b) an optional ethylene-?-olefin copolymer, c) glass fibers and d) a reaction product of d1) a functionalized polypropylene and d2) a polyetheramine, wherein the total amount of a) and b) is 10.0 to 80.0 wt % or 20.0 to 80.0 wt % with respect to the total composition, the amount of c) is 5.0 to 50.0 wt % with respect to the total composition, the amount of d2) is at least 5.0 wt % with respect to the total composition and the weight ratio of d2) to d1) is at least 0.050.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Peter Antonius Martens, Jana Hrachova, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Ronald Julianus Peter Schipper, Robbert Duchateau
  • Patent number: 11930821
    Abstract: An antimicrobial cover system for tubular structures includes a pair of identical cover portions. Each cover portion's outer surface is defined by an antimicrobial material and its inner surface is longitudinally corrugated. Each cover portion has a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. The first longitudinal edge includes a first tab and a first socket, and the second longitudinal edge includes a second tab and a second socket. When the cover portions are adapted to encase a tubular structure, the first tab of a first of the cover portions is engaged in the second socket of a second of the cover portions, and the second tab of the second of the cover portions is engaged in the first socket of the first of the cover portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: EDS SURFACES, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Trinder, II
  • Patent number: 11920837
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container housing a composition comprising tetrafluoropropene. The container is made from metal and includes an inner surface, said inner surface being in contact with the composition and being at least partially covered with a coating containing zinc. Advantageously, the aforementioned composition comprises at least 15 wt.-% tetrafluoropropene relative to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Béatrice Boussand, Wissam Rached, Laurent Wendlinger
  • Patent number: 11912488
    Abstract: A multilayer moisture barrier film includes a first outer layer, a second outer layer, and at least one desiccant-containing inner layer between the first and second outer layers. The inner layer can have cavities with which the desiccant particles are in communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal J Monforton, Mychal Barrett Brosch, Adam C Feigum, Ramin Heydarpour, Kenneth Lin, George A Tuszkiewicz
  • Patent number: 11912854
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides extruded PTFE composite tubes with a reduced coefficient of friction (COF). In some embodiments, such extruded PTFE composite tubes may exhibit a reduced change in coefficient of friction between about 20° C. and about 40° C. with the inclusion of secondary polymeric particles with small particle sizes (<100 ?m) at loading percentages of less than about 50 weight %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZEUS COMPANY INC.
    Inventors: Justin A. Marro, John Richard Campanelli, Patrick Cooper, Robert L. Ballard, Douglas Lee Tourville
  • Patent number: 11911341
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer vessel excellent in gas barrier performance and transparency and its application. The multilayer vessel contains a layer (X) that contains at least one type of polyolefin resin as the major ingredient; and a layer (Y) that contains a polyamide resin (A) as the major ingredient, the polyamide resin (A) being composed of a structural unit derived from diamine, and a structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid, 70 mol % or more of the structural unit derived from diamine being derived from metaxylylenediamine, meanwhile 30 to 60 mol % of the structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid being derived from straight chain aliphatic ?,?-dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, and 70 to 40 mol % being derived from isophthalic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Shota Arakawa, Toshiya Naito, Satoshi Okada, Kenichiro Usuda, Takumi Toida, Haruka Okazaki, Fumihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11905363
    Abstract: This disclosure provide new multilayer polyester (particularly PET) containers that have improved gas barrier properties over conventional monolayer PET containers. In particular, a 2,5-furandicarboxylate polyester (for example, poly(ethylene furan-2,5-dicarboxylate) (PEF)) barrier layer that has superior gas barrier and mechanical properties relative to PET, that is “sandwiched” between two PET layers, has been found to achieve a significantly higher barrier against gas permeation relative to conventional monolayer PET container of the same size and shape. Associated preforms, methods, and compositions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Ronald D. Moffitt, Jasmeet Kaur, T. Edwin Freeman, Robert Kriegel, Yu Shi, Marlon Salvador Morales, Vidhu Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11898661
    Abstract: Provided is a fluororubber composition capable of providing a crosslinked fluororubber article that exhibits not only heat resistance, but also excellent mechanical properties at high temperatures. The fluororubber composition includes a fluororubber (A), a carbon black (B), and an aromatic petroleum resin (E), and the fluororubber composition has a difference ?G? (G? (1%)?G? (100%)) of not lower than 120 kPa and not higher than 3,000 kPa, where G? (1%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 1%, G? (100%) denotes a shear modulus at a dynamic strain of 100%, and G? (1%) and G? (100%) are determined by a dynamic viscoelasticity test carried out on an unvulcanised rubber with a rubber process analyzer (RPA) in a condition that the measurement frequency is 1 Hz and the measurement temperature is 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ota, Akinori Ueda, Yuu Kadowaki, Mayuko Taeda, Masanori Kitaichi, Kazuhiro Yamamura, Michiko Doi, Shoji Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11890784
    Abstract: An integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container has as integrally blow-moulded bag-in-container wherein the same polymer is in contact on either side of the interface between the inner and outer layers. A preform for blow-moulding a bag-in-container has an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the preform forms a two-layer container upon blow-moulding, and wherein the thus obtained inner layer of the container releases from the thus obtained outer layer upon introduction of a gas at a point of interface between the two layers. The inner and outer layers are of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ANHEUS ER-BUSCH INBEV S.A.
    Inventors: Sarah Van Hove, Daniel Peirsman, Rudi Verpoorten
  • Patent number: 11890857
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cylinder (10) which is set up for application of at least one hollow cylinder, the cylinder (10) having a layer structure which comprises in this order, from inside to outside, a base layer (12) or a cylinder core, a first compressible layer (14), a filling layer (16), an interlayer (18), a second compressible layer (20) and an outer layer (22), the outer layer forming a lateral surface of the cylinder. The invention further relates to arrangements comprising at least one such cylinder (10) and further cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Flint Group Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Schwiertz, Uwe Müller, Klaus Bennink
  • Patent number: 11891221
    Abstract: Biodegradable bottle cap is a water bottle cap containing the plastic eating fungus pestalotiopsismicrosporia. When the consumer is done drinking from the bottle, the cap has a tab that is pulled and this tab releases the fungus. The fungus consumes the plastic bottle and the cap so no trace is left behind. The cap is made of plastic and the fungus is contained in an aluminum casing. Also contain in the casing is the safe food dye which will be coloring the water in case of accidental release or opening of the casing before the use of the drinking water. Such water coloring will be an indication to avoid using the water for drinking though the fungus is safe after human galloping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Mirza Faizan
  • Patent number: 11892104
    Abstract: An endoscope flexible tube having a cylindrical flexible tube base that has flexibility and a resin layer that coats the flexible tube base includes the resin layer, which is a single layer or multiple layers of two or more layers, comprises a layer A which comprises: polyester elastomers, at least one of polyurethane elastomers or polyamide elastomers, and both a hindered phenol compound and a hindered amine compound, wherein the content of the polyester elastomers in the layer A is 55 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakai, Kiyotaka Fukagawa, Nobuharu Takahashi, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11872784
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lamitube comprising: a) a top layer comprising at least one ethylene polymer; and b) a second layer comprising at least one ethylene polymer having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the lamitube has a density in the range of 0.942-0.99 gm/cm3. The present disclosure also discloses a process of manufacturing a lamitube comprising the steps of forming the layers and laminating the layers together, then slitting into reels of desired width in the range of 63-320 mm, followed by tubing from the reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EPL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hariharan Krishnan Nair
  • Patent number: 11872788
    Abstract: Provided are a multilayered article and a multilayered container excelling in oxygen barrier properties, delamination resistance, and transparency. The multilayered article has a polyester resin layer and a barrier layer. The polyamide resin contained in the barrier layer includes (A) a polyamide resin derived from xylylenediamine and adipic acid, (B) a polyamide resin derived from xylylenediamine, a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, and isophthalic acid, and as necessary, (C) a polyamide resin derived from hexamethylenediamine, isophthalic acid, and terephthalic acid, and (D) an aliphatic polyamide resin. In the barrier layer, a ratio of the mass of the polyamide resin (A) to the total mass of the polyamide resin (B) and the polyamide resin (C) is from 98:2 to 15:85, the total content of the polyamide resin (A) and the polyamide resin (B) is 60 mass % or more, the content of the polyamide resin (B) is from 1 to 65 mass %, and the content of the aliphatic polyamide resin (D) is from 3 to 40 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Takanori Miyabe
  • Patent number: 11867344
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a self-molding composite system for insulation and covering operations. The self-molding composite system may be cured to form any desired shaped for insulation and covering operations. The composite system comprises one or more layers that may create a rigid layered composite when cured. The one or more layers of the composite system may include at least one structural reinforcement layer that is a braided, knit, or non-woven fiber based substrate, an interstitial matrix layer, and customizable top coat. The customizable top coat may be a solvent based polymer solution that includes various additives that may include color pigments, additives for additional abrasion protection, additives for thermal protection, and/or additives for creating various textures or visible appearances to the composite system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NELSON GLOBAL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Jacque Goulet
  • Patent number: 11840044
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multilayer tube that may include an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer may include a fluoroether elastomer and the outer layer may include a non-fluoroether based elastomer. The multilayer tube may further include an adhesion force between the inner layer and the outer layer of at least about 1 ppi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael J. Tzivanis, Jianfeng Zhang, Xipeng Liu, Charles S. Golub
  • Patent number: 11827049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ornamental laminate film made from at least an inside film and an outside film, provided with a letter and/or a pattern by printing and as a raised part protruding toward the outside film. At least apart of the letter and/or the pattern has a metallic luster and differs in at least one of hue, brightness, chroma and glossiness from a region other than the letter and/or the pattern, and the raised part is formed along at least a part of the letter and/or the pattern. As a result of that, an ornamental laminate film with excellent design is provided without impairing its function as a packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yasuumi, Yasushi Hatano, Kazumi Ozawa, Kouji Kuriyama, Yoshihiro Ootani, Yousuke Morita
  • Patent number: 11825865
    Abstract: A description is given of a tubular food casing having a fiber layer on the inside and having two or more polymer layers. The polymer layers include a first continuous polymer layer (A), with which the inner fiber layer or nonwoven-web layer is coated on the side of the tubular casing facing away from the inside, and completely covers the layer, and at least one polymer layer (B), and a monoaxially or biaxially oriented film based on polyamide and/or copolyamide. At least two of the polymer layers are joined to one another directly by a layer of adhesive. The inner fiber layer may absorb colour, smoke, aroma and/or flavour substance(s), such as liquid smoke or caramel, store these substances and transfer them to a food located within the casino. The casing is suitable as artificial sausage casing, especially for cooked-filling and scalded-emulsion sausage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Kalle GmbH
    Inventors: Erna Kastl, Jens Fögler, Ulrich Delius, Martina König
  • Patent number: 11820110
    Abstract: A heat-sealable multilayer film may include a support layer, a polyethylene heat-seal layer, and an intermediate peelable layer. The support layer may include at least one polymeric layer. Heat-sealed packages comprising the multilayer film described herein have peelable seals characterized by an appropriate peel strength substantially independent of the seal conditions and substantially free of stringing upon peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMCOR FLEXIBLES WINTERBOURNE LIMITED
    Inventors: David Thomas Stell, Robert James Massey