Patents Examined by Marc Zimmer
  • Patent number: 9850349
    Abstract: Provided is a multicomponent room temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition capable of providing a cured product superior in fast curability, storage stability and durability. The room temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition comprises: (A) an alkoxysilyl-ethylene group-terminated organopolysiloxane having in each molecule at least one silyl-ethylene bond represented by the following structural formula (1) (wherein R1 represents an alkyl group; R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; a represents an integer of 1 to 3; and n represents an integer of 0 to 10); (B) an organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (2) (wherein R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and m represents a number at which such organopolysiloxane exhibits a viscosity of 10 to 1,000,000 mPa·s at 25° C.); and (C) a curing catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takafumi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9845411
    Abstract: A coating composition and a method for coating metallic substrates, such as aircraft components exposed to elevated temperatures and/or oxidative conditions. The coating composition includes an aqueous mixture having about 2 vol % to about 50 vol % organosilane, about 0.3 to about 25 vol % metal alkoxide, and about 0.1 to about 30 vol % organic complexing agent. The coating composition may be deposited on a metallic substrate and cured to form a sol-gel coating on the surface of the substrate that is adherent to the substrate, and oxidation and discoloration resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kay Y. Blohowiak, Jacob W. Grob, Joseph H. Osborne
  • Patent number: 9845391
    Abstract: The invention relates to polymer compositions containing inorganic or organic particles which either have been surface-treated before the production of the compositions or are dispersed by special polyether-modified siloxanes through the production of the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Kathrin Lehmann, Angela Nawracala, Frauke Henning, Christian Mund
  • Patent number: 9840641
    Abstract: A silicone resin liquid composition containing a silicone resin is provided. The 29Si-NMR measurement of the resin exhibits a ratio of the area of signals assigned to A3 silicon atoms to the area of all signals derived from silicon atoms of 51% to 69%. An A3 silicon atom represents a silicon atom to which are bonded three oxygen atoms bonded to another silicon atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Takashima, Gaku Yoshikawa, Tsuyoshi Kameda
  • Patent number: 9834620
    Abstract: Disclosed are a modified conjugated diene-based polymer represented by specific Chemical Formula, a method of preparing the same, and a rubber composition including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: He-Seung Lee, No-Ma Kim, Hae-Sung Sohn
  • Patent number: 9828525
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a color coating composition for an LED lamp diffuser and a color-coated glass article using the same. The color coating composition is capable of increasing durability and a life of an LED lamp, satisfactorily maintaining an external appearance and a lighting quality thereof for a long time, and realizing various colors, by manufacturing a glass-made diffuser as a means for diffusing light of the LED lamp in a manner of coating the diffuser on various sheets of transparent or translucent glass such as tubes and bulbs so that the diffuser is not deformed and discolored due to light and heat, and has high strength and translucency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SHINCERAMIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Soo Shin, Hyeon Bae, Hee Chul Shin, Je Hune Chang, Seung Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 9828520
    Abstract: A composition formed from ingredients comprising: an epoxy; a polyvinyl phenol; a cross-linking agent; an epoxy silane; and a solvent is disclosed. A printable medium and other devices made from the composition are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guiqin Song, Nan-Xing Hu, Ping Liu, Adela Goredema, Biby Esther Abraham, Cuong Vong
  • Patent number: 9818663
    Abstract: Addition-curable encapsulants for electrical and electronic components contain amorphous glass particles doped with silver, and are efficient scavengers of sulfur and sulfur compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventor: Philipp Mueller
  • Patent number: 9815972
    Abstract: To provide a fluoro-rubber composition whereby good hardness and good elongation are obtainable in a rubber article after cross-linking, and a cross-linked rubber article using the same. A fluoro-rubber composition comprising a fluoro-rubber, a hydrophobic silica and a cross-linking agent, wherein the hydrophobic silica is one having hydrophobized with hexamethyldisilazane or silicone oil, and the content of the hydrophobic silica is from 1 to 50 parts by mass and the content of the cross-linking agent is from 0.1 to 5 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the fluoro-rubber; and a cross-linked rubber article obtained by cross-linking such a fluoro-rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamada, Ken Iruya
  • Patent number: 9811192
    Abstract: A composition for a window film includes a siloxane resin represented by Formula 1, 4 or 7, or a mixture thereof, and an initiator. A flexible window film is manufactured using the same, and has a pencil hardness of about 7H or higher, a radius of curvature of about 5.0 mm or less, and a difference in yellow index before and after irradiation (?Y.I.) of about 5.0 or less. A flexible display includes the flexible window film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Soo Woo, Kyoung Ku Kang, Min Hye Kim, Ji Sun Im, Seung Woo Jang, Dong Il Han
  • Patent number: 9803079
    Abstract: A method of preparing a fiber-reinforced polymer composite is provided. The method includes (a) providing a swollen clay material; (b) chemically modifying a surface of the swollen clay material with an organosilane to form a silane-modified clay material; (c) intercalating the silane-modified clay material with a binder to form an intercalated clay material; and (d) melt compounding the intercalated clay material with a mixture comprising a polymer and fiber to form the fiber-reinforced polymer composite. A fiber-reinforced polymer composite is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Xu Li, Chao Bin He, Haiwen Gu, Siew Yee Wong, Shilin Chen
  • Patent number: 9803055
    Abstract: This present disclosure relates to fluorinated polysiloxane resin compositions, and method for making the same, without the need for using halogen acids, and that display excellent properties of impact resistance, flexibility, chemical resistance, corrosion resistance, weather resistance, heat and fire resistance, abrasion resistance, ultraviolet resistance, hydrophobicity, and substrate adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HEMPEL A/S
    Inventors: Douglas E. Johnston, Jr., Roland L. Gasmena, Mark Stephen Miller, Paul Anthony Lum, Jasmine Keuk, Ronaldo J. Nicolas
  • Patent number: 9796839
    Abstract: A masterbatch having epoxy-functionalized silicone as a slip additive, the polypropylene compound that the silicone-containing masterbatch has been let down into, and the plastic articles and films from such compounds having improved slip properties are disclosed. The improved slip properties are evidenced by (1) essentially no migration of the slip additive 12 weeks after manufacturing, (2) a dynamic coefficient of friction value of less than 0.4 and a static coefficient of friction 0.6 or less within the first day of manufacturing according to the ASTM D1894-01 method, and (3) less than 15% change in the dynamic and static coefficient of friction values between the first day of manufacturing and 20 days after manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: PolyOne Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Alric, Jerome Waeler, Fabien Auvray
  • Patent number: 9796837
    Abstract: A masterbatch having functionalized silicone with an epoxy group or a secondary amine group as a slip additive, the polyethylene compound that the silicone-containing masterbatch has been let down into, and the plastic articles and films from such compounds having improved slip properties are disclosed. The improved slip properties are evidenced by essentially no migration of the slip additive 12 weeks after manufacturing and a dynamic coefficient of friction value of less than 0.4 and a static coefficient of friction 0.5 or less as measured within the first day of manufacturing according to the ASTM D1894-01 method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: PolyOne Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Alric, Jerome Waeler, Fabien Auvray
  • Patent number: 9798215
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing an electrophoretic particle, in which the electrophoretic particle includes a mother particle and a block copolymer, including: a step of polymerizing a monomer M having a site contributing to dispersibility into a dispersion medium, a monomer M including a second functional group having reactivity with the first functional group, a charged monomer M by living polymerization without random copolymerizing the monomer M1 and the monomer M2 so as to obtain the block copolymer; and a step of reacting the first functional group and the second functional group to a bonding section to a mother particle so as to connect the block copolymer to the mother particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Shinobu Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 9796851
    Abstract: The invention concerns cushioning compositions comprising (a) at least one of urethane polymer and silicone polymeric putty; and (b) hydraulic silicone crumb; said hydraulic silicone crumb being mixed with component (a). The invention also concerns devices and methods using such compositions. Protective devices have been used to protect the hoofs of animals. Shoes have been used to protect the hoofs from damage while the animal is walking or running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventor: Patrick T. Reilly
  • Patent number: 9796892
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition using a silicone polymer compound, which does not require exposure, baking and development processes for the production, thereby making the production cost low and making the productivity high, which has good characteristics such as good adhesiveness, good hermetic sealing properties after thermal curing and low moisture absorption that are required for adhesives, which provides a cured film having high reliabilities such as high heat resistance and high light resistance, and which is capable of suppressing warping of a bonded substrate after back grinding that is necessary in the three-dimensional mounting production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yasuda, Kyoko Soga, Michihiro Sugo
  • Patent number: 9790307
    Abstract: A process for producing a silane-crosslinked polyolefin which comprises exposing a polyolefin containing at least one [1,3,2]-dioxasilinane ring structure to moisture in the presence of an organic carboxylic acid, which is used as a hydrolysis and condensation catalyst and does not contain tin, thereby producing the silane-crosslinked polyolefin, wherein the polyolefin containing at least one [1,3,2]-dioxasilinane ring structure is made by the process of grafting an olefinically unsaturated [1,3,2]-dioxasilinane to a polyolefin in the presence of a free radical initiator. There is also provided the resulting silane-crosslinked polyolefin and the graftable silane composition used in the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Samim Alam, Roy U. Rojas Wahl
  • Patent number: 9790327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a binder which comprises at least one alkoxy-functional polysiloxane, and at least one crosslinking catalyst, the crosslinking catalyst representing a silicon-containing guanidine compound, and also, optionally, an alkoxysilane as crosslinker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klotzbach, Michael Fiedel, Michael Ferenz, Olga Fiedel, M-Ibrahim Jussofie, Dirk Hinzmann, Wolfgang Hojak, Ingrid Eissmann
  • Patent number: 9790396
    Abstract: Urethane (multi)-(meth)acrylate (multi)-silane compositions, and articles including a (co)polymer reaction product of at least one urethane (multi)-(meth)acrylate (multi)-silane precursor compound. The disclosure also articles including a substrate, a base (co)polymer layer on a major surface of the substrate, an oxide layer on the base (co)polymer layer; and a protective (co)polymer layer on the oxide layer, the protective (co)polymer layer including the reaction product of at least one urethane (multi) (meth)acrylate (multi)-silane precursor compound. The substrate may be a (co)polymeric film or an electronic device such as an organic light emitting device, electrophoretic light emitting device, liquid crystal display, thin film transistor, or combination thereof. Methods of making urethane (multi)-(meth)acrylate (multi)-silane precursor compounds and their use in composite multilayer barrier films are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATION PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas P. Klun, Alan K. Nachtigal, Joseph C. Spagnola, Mark A. Roehrig, Jennifer K. Schnobrich, Guy D. Joly, Christopher S. Lyons