Patents Examined by Margaret Medley
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Patent number: 6353039Abstract: A composite material is described which contains polymerizable monomers plus a special transparent glass having high release of calcium ions and fluorine ions and, because of this release property and in particular of its optical properties, can be used as a restoration material in dentistry.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1998Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Ivoclar AGInventors: Volker Rheinberger, Ulrich Salz, Wolfram Höland, André Rumphorst, Kurt Grabher, Urs Karl Fischer, Marcel Schweiger, Norbert Moszner
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Patent number: 6352961Abstract: The present invention provides a grease composition which is excellent in peel resistance, not to mention lubricity, as compared with the prior art products. A novel grease composition for rolling bearing is provided, comprising a base oil, an extender, an inorganic compound-based filler having an average particle diameter of not more than 2 &mgr;m and zinc dithiocarbamate.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1999Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Iso, Atushi Yokouchi, Hideki Koizumi, Michiharu Naka
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Patent number: 6352566Abstract: Ethers of polyalkyl or polyalkenyl N-hydroxyalkyl succinimides having the formula: or a fuel soluble salt thereof; wherein R is a polyalkyl or polyalkenyl group having an average molecular weight in the range of about 450 to about 5,000; n is an integer from 2 to 5; and Z is a moiety selected from the group consisting of wherein R1 is a hydroxy, nitro, cyano or —(CH2)x—NR3R4, wherein R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and x is 0 or 1; and R2 is hydrogen, hydroxy, nitro, cyano or —(CH2)y—NR5R6, wherein R5 and R6 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and y is 0 or 1. The compounds of formula I are useful as fuel additives for the prevention and control of engine deposits.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2000Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Chevron Chemical Company LLCInventor: Richard E. Cherpeck
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Patent number: 6353143Abstract: A fuel composition with a high flash point and a high octane number is provided. The preferred embodiment of the fuel comprises a paraffin or aromatic hydrocarbon component which may be mixed with an additive of alcohols, ethers, esters, organometallic compounds or mixtures thereof. The fuel composition is useful as emergency fuel for use in gasoline powered vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Pennzoil-Quaker State CompanyInventors: Jiafu Fang, Dewey P. Szemenyei, Troy H. Scriven
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Patent number: 6348437Abstract: Silicone organic blends for use as lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, dielectric fluids, coolants, and in compressor or vacuum pump applications, have improved viscosity stability when the polydispersity of the silicone fluids used in these blends, i.e., their molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn), exceeds 1.5. The viscosity rise of the silicone organic blend is less than one centistoke (mm2/s) when aged 14 days in an oven at 100° C., compared to viscosity rises of about 1.3 to over 3.5 centistokes (mm2/s) for commercial silicone organic blends using silicone fluids with polydispersity less than 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1996Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Ragnar Richard Avery, Jeffrey Scott Baker, Gerald Anthony Beeler, Michael Henry Brown, Kevin James Okeson
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Patent number: 6348075Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition containing A) at least one polyalkenene substituted amine; and B) at least one hydrocarbyl-terminated poly(oxypropylene) monool represented by the formula wherein in formula (B-I), R is an alkyl or an alkyl-substituted aromatic group of about 8 to about 20 carbon atoms; x is a number from about 13 to about 28; and wherein the weight ratio of component (A) to component (B) ranges from about 10:1 to about 1:10. The composition is useful as a fuel additive for reducing intake valve deposits or for improving the valve stick performance of an internal combustion engine. The invention also relates to concentrates and fuel compositions containing the foregoing fuel additive composition and to a method for reducing intake valve deposits or for improving the valve stick performance of an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1998Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventor: Mitchell M. Jackson
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Patent number: 6346129Abstract: A fuel composition comprising a major amount of hydrocarbons boiling in the gasoline or diesel range and an effective detergent amount of a hydroxyalkyl-substituted polyamine which is the reaction product of: (a) a polyolefin epoxide derived from a branched chain polyolefin having an average molecular weight of about 400 to 5,000; and (b) a polyamine having from 2 to about 12 amine nitrogen atoms and from 2 to about 40 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Chevron Oronite Company LLCInventors: Edward T. Sabourin, Thomas F. Buckley, III, Curtis B. Campbell, Frank Plavac, Mary J. Tompkins
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Patent number: 6346504Abstract: An ester based lubricant, particularly suitable for 4-stroke engines comprises at least one ester of a saturated, branched chain monohydric alcohol having at least 8 carbon atoms and a saturated branched chain aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 10 carbon atoms. The esters have a kinematic viscosity of at most 35 cSt (40° C.), a non-polarity index of at least 100, a Noack evaporation loss of at most 10% and a pour point below −30° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.Inventors: Eric Appelman, Dirk Kenbeek, Hendrik L. Rieffe
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Patent number: 6346128Abstract: A two-cycle engine fuel composition comprising (a) a major amount of a two-cycle engine fuel; (b) a lubricant component; and, (c) a two-cycle engine fuel combustion deposit-inhibiting amount of at least one hydrocarbyl polyoxyalkylene aminoalcohol of the general formula wherein R1 is an alkyl, an alicyclic or an alkylalicyclic radical having from about 4 to about 30 carbon atoms or an alkylaryl where the alkyl group is from about 4 to about 30 carbon atoms; x is an integer from 0 to about 5, y is an integer from 1 to about 49, z is an integer from 1 to about 49 and the sum of x+y+z is equal to 3 to about 50; R2 and R3 each is different and is an alkyl group of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and each oxyalkylene radical can be any combination of repeating oxyalkylene units to form random or block copolymers; R4 is the same as R2 or R3; R5 is hydrogen or where R7 is hydrogen or an alkyl group of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms and R6 is hydrogen or an alkyl group of from 1 to 5Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Texaco Inc.Inventors: Thomas F. DeRosa, Jeffrey M. Burns, Benjamin J. Kaufman, Robert J. Bacchi, Serge A. Cryvoff, James R. Ketcham
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Patent number: 6344158Abstract: The invention relates to a flame retardant combination for thermoplastic polymers comprising, as component A, a salt of 1-hydroxydihydrophosphole oxides of formula (Ia) or formula (Ib) and/or 1-hydroxyphospholane oxides of formula (II), and, as component B, a synthetic inorganic compound and/or a mineral product.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2000Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: Clariant GmbHInventors: Elke Schlosser, Bernd Nass, Wolfgang Wanzke
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Patent number: 6342169Abstract: The invention relates to a method of confining sulfur dioxide for storage or transportation under safe conditions. The method of the invention comprises the steps of (a) contacting a sulfur dioxide-containing gas stream with an absorbing medium comprising water and a water-soluble amine absorbent having at least one amine group with a pKa value greater than about 7 and at least one other amine group with a pKa value less than about 6.5 so that the at least one amine group with a pKa value greater than about 7 irreversibly absorbs sulfur dioxide in salt form rendering the amine absorbent non-volatile and the at least one other amine group with a pKa value less than about 6.5 reversibly absorbs sulfur dioxide, to thereby saturate the absorbing medium with sulfur dioxide against a partial pressure of sulfur dioxide of no more than about 1 atmosphere at 25° C.; and (b) charging the absorbing medium saturated with sulfur dioxide obtained in step (a) into a container for storage or transportation.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1999Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Cansolv Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Leo E. Hakka, Paul J. Parisi
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Patent number: 6342080Abstract: A candle is disclosed, containing a candle-forming component including a paraffin wax and stearic acid, added and mixed with Tetrahydro methylabietate and dihydro Methylabietate, Isopropyl Myristate, &agr;-Amylcinnamic Alcohol, Iso Bornyl Cyclohexanol, and Tri Ethyl Citrate. The candle has an effect for suppressing the exhalation of a nasty odor (an odor at extinguishing) generated when a flame has been extinguished, as well as an effect that, when the odor at extinguishing is vaporized by heat and diffused into air, molecules of various odors hanging in the air are trapped, whereby the air in the whole of a room is made refreshed.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2000Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Nippon Kodo Co. Ltd.Inventor: Masayoshi Konaka
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Patent number: 6339051Abstract: Diesel engine cylinder oils of improved cleanliness and load carrying ability and reduced port deposit characteristics for use in marine and stationary slow speed diesel engines are based on medium heavy Group I or Group II neutral base oils, typically from 300 to 500 SUS using a liquid, oil-miscible polyisobutylene (PIB) in combination with the neutral base stock and an additive package comprising a detergent component or components, an antioxidant, an antiwear agent, and a dispersant. The detergent component preferably comprises one or more overbased phenates, phenylates, salicylates or sulfonates in order to confer the desired alkalinity characteristics on the finished oil. The oils are produced in the viscosity range of 15 to 25 cS (100° C.), usually with a nominal viscosity of 20 or 24 cS, i.e., from 18.5 to 21.9 cS or 21.9 to 26.1 cS (100° C.). The viscosity index of the improved oils is at least 95, typically from 105 to 120. Total Base Number of the oils is in the range 40 to 100.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1998Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: Vincent M. Carey, John T. Fogarty
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Patent number: 6333376Abstract: The plastic ski coating contains a filling material addition improving the sliding properties, which contains at least one of the following materials: boron, at least one boron compound, at least one nitride. With this the filling material addition quantity may be smaller than with a filling material addition of soot or graphite, and a black coloration of the ski coating may be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: IMS Kunststoff AGInventor: Urs Geissbuhler
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Patent number: 6331509Abstract: The disclosure relates to improved gel/grease compositions as well as grease compositions capable of imparting improved corrosion resistance. The grease includes a silica/silicate mixture that can imparts a relatively high pH and corrosion resistant properties to the grease.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, Nancy M. Heimann, William M. Dalton, Donald W. Taylor, Todd W. Scrivens
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Patent number: 6331584Abstract: Provided are a flame-retardant polycarbonate resin composition containing a phosphate compound as the flame retardant, and also injection moldings of the composition. The composition has good moldability, and its moldings have good phosphate mold-deposits resistance and good mold releasability. In particular, when containing a styrenic resin, the composition has much better melt fluidity, and its moldings have improved impact resistance and flame retardancy. The composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a resin or resin mixture of (A) from 20 to 100% by weight of a polycarbonate resin and (B) from 0 to 80% by weight of a styrenic resin, from 1 to 30 parts by weight of (C) a phosphate compound having a melting point of not lower than 70° C., and from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of (D) at least one member selected from the group consisting of polyglycerins, polyalkylene glycols, esters of polyglycerins, esters of polyalkylene glycols and polyesters of polycarboxylic acids with polyalcohols.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1999Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nodera, Naoki Mitsuta
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Patent number: 6329329Abstract: A lubricant is provided which has a hardness in the range 0.1-10 N/mm at all temperatures in the range 15-40° C. The lubricant consists of at least one full ester of a glycol with a fatty acid, e.g. ethylene glycol dilaurate, optionally mixed with a minor amount of a fatty acid such as stearic acid, and/or a minor amount of a partial ester of a glycol with a fatty acid. The lubricant is useful in the production of press-formed components, and particularly in techniques for converting aluminium sheet to adhesively bonded aluminium structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Alcan International LimitedInventors: Joanna Mary Sharp, William Francis Marwick, Alan Robert Carr, Peter Geoffrey Sheasby
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Patent number: 6329445Abstract: An ocular lens material comprising a polymer prepared by polymerizing a component containing a benzotriazole compound (A) represented by the formula (I): wherein X is hydrogen, a halogen, an alkyl having 1 to 3 carbons or an alkoxy having 1 to 3 carbons, R1 is an alkylene having 2 to 10 carbons, R2 is hydrogen, methyl or a halogenated methyl, R3 is hydrogen, an alkyl or an aryl, and each of R4 and R5 is independently an alkyl having 1 to 8 carbons. The material shows excellent ultraviolet-ray absorbing power and oxidation inhibiting power at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Menicon Co., LTDInventors: Akiko Okumura, Kazuhiko Nakada, Akinori Okumura
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Patent number: 6328771Abstract: A fuel composition comprising a major amount of hydrocarbon fuel and a minor lubricity improving amount of a composition made by reacting component (A) with component (B) under unit-forming conditions; component (A) comprising a carboxylic acid represented by the formula R (COOH)n wherein R is a hydrocarbon group of 2 to 30 carbon atoms and n is a number in the range of 1 to 4, or an anhydride of said acid; and component (B) comprising a heterocylic aromatic amine.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventor: David J. Moreton
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Patent number: 6325833Abstract: Emulsion blends are provided containing Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons, non-Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons, water, and a surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Paul J. Berlowitz, Robert J. Wittenbrink