Patents Examined by Mark Eashoo
  • Vapor permeable liquid-applied membrane
    Patent number: 8524822
    Abstract: Exemplary membranes, liquid compositions, and methods of the invention involve the use of a hydrophobic acrylic polymer and at least one water-soluble polymer (e.g., PVOH) for providing a water vapor permeable air barrier on construction surfaces. Unlike prior art vapor barriers, the present invention provides membranes having good crack-bridging and non-water-absorption characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.—Conn.
    Inventor: Robert A. Wiercinski
  • Peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer
    Patent number: 8524835
    Abstract: Disclosed is a peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer obtained by copolymerization of 0.1 to 20 mol % of a mixture of fluoroolefin iodides represented by the general formulae: CnF2n+1CF2CH?CF(CF2CF2)mI [Ia] and CnF2n+1CF?CHCF2(CF2CF2)mI [Ib], wherein n is an integer of 0 to 5, and m is an integer of 1 to 3. The peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer is copolymerized with a monomer having a side chain containing a peroxide-crosslinkable halogen atom, and has excellent vulcanizate physical properties and improved compression set characteristics when subjected to peroxide crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Unimatec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Murai, Mitsuru Maeda, Seiichiro Murata
  • Paint
    Patent number: 8501863
    Abstract: A paint composition and formulation for building materials, such as materials that are generally cementitious, gypsum, or of another inorganic building material, including those containing cellulose, glass, steel or polymeric fibers. The paint formulation provides improved weatherability, durability, light stability, freeze-thaw resistance and water resistivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: James Hardie Technology Limited
    Inventors: Richard M. Lazarus, Caidian Luo
  • Silated core polysulfides, their preparation and use in filled elastomer compositions
    Patent number: 8501849
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel sulfur-containing silane coupling agents, and organic polymers containing carbon-carbon double bonds. These novel silanes can be carried on organic and inorganic fillers. The invention also relates to articles of manufacture, particularly tires, made from the elastomer compositions described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Cruse, W. Michael York, Eric R. Pohl, Antonio Chaves, Prashant Joshi
  • Self-dispersing latex particulates
    Patent number: 8487036
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a self-dispersing latex particulate. The self-dispersing latex particulate can include a plurality of polymerized monomers witch form a latex particulate and a latex dispersant. The latex dispersant can include at least one hydrophobic segment adsorbed on a surface of the latex particulate, and a plurality of hydrophilic segments attached to the hydrophobic segment or segments. Such self-dispersing latex particulates can be included in latex dispersions, such as ink-jet inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Sivapackia Ganapathiappan
  • Resin composition for printed wiring board, prepreg, and laminate obtained with the same
    Patent number: 8470938
    Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for use in producing a prepreg for printed wiring boards excellent in appearance, flame retardancy, etc., which comprises an epoxy resin, a phenolic novolak, and a curing accelerator. It is characterized in that the epoxy resin comprises an epoxy (a) and an epoxy (b), wherein the epoxy (a) is a brominated epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting/mixing a bisphenol A epoxy resin with tetrabromobisphenol A and has an epoxy equivalent of 350 to 470 g/eq and an n=0 component content of 20 to 35% in terms of areal percentage in a GPC chart, and the epoxy (b) is at least one bifunctional epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting any one selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, and tetrabromobisphenol A with epichlorohydrin and has an n=0 component content as determined from a GPC chart of 60% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetsugu Motobe, Akinori Hibino, Katsuhiko Ito
  • Low odor binders curable at room temperature
    Patent number: 8466216
    Abstract: Topically-applied binder materials for imparting wet strength to soft, absorbent paper sheets, such as are useful as household paper towels and the like, include an epoxy-reactive polymer, such as a carboxyl-functional polymer, and an epoxy-functional polymer. These binder materials can be cured at ambient temperature over a period of days and do not impart objectionable odor to final product when wetted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Thomas Goulet, Tracy Ho Mathews, Stacey Lynn Pomeroy, Maurizio Tirimacco
  • Methods of making fabric softener
    Patent number: 8461096
    Abstract: Optimizing dilution processing, include the use of cold dilution water, yields fabric softener products of desired rheology and stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Darren Franklin King, Alessandro Corona, III, Eric Foster Hopper, Brian Christopher Groendyke
  • Laundry care compositions with thiazolium dye
    Patent number: 8461095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thiazolium dyes, laundry care compositions comprising one or more thiazolium dyes, processes of making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using same. The dyes, compositions and methods of the present invention are advantageous in providing improved hueing of fabric, including whitening of white fabric, while avoiding significant build up of bluing dyes on the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Eduardo Torres, Laurent D. Kieken, Patrick D. Moore, Dominick J. Valenti, Robert L. Mahaffey, Cecile Pasquier, Manuela Javet, Mu-ill Lim, Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker
  • Curable film-forming compositions demonstrating burnish resistance and low gloss
    Patent number: 8460795
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to curable film-forming compositions comprising: a) a curing agent; and b) a film-forming material comprising a fluoropolymer, a polymer having functional groups, and a plurality of particles comprising fillers and/or nanoscale particles having an average particle size ranging from 1 to less than 1000 nanometers prior to incorporation into the composition; wherein 20 to 30 percent by weight of the film-forming material of b) comprises the fluoropolymer. In certain embodiments, after application to a substrate as a coating and after curing, the cured composition demonstrates burnish resistance and an 85° gloss of less than 50. Multi-component composite coating compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence G. Anderson, Paul H. Lamers, Stephen G. McQuown
  • Liquid composition
    Patent number: 8461242
    Abstract: To provide a liquid composition containing a fluoropolymer having sulfonic acid functional groups, which rarely corrodes a metal and has good handling efficiency, which liquid composition comprises a fluoropolymer having sulfonic acid functional groups and a solvent, wherein the solvent contains a polyhydric alcohol and a monohydric alcohol. The content of the fluoropolymer is preferably from 5 to 50 mass % in the liquid composition (100 mass %), and the content of the polyhydric alcohol is preferably from 5 to 50 mass % in the solvent (100 mass %).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masakazu Ataku, Hiroki Kamiya
  • Nucleophilic substitution of carbon nanotubes
    Patent number: 8461294
    Abstract: Compounds are attached to carbon nanotubes (CNT) by a process which comprises: subjecting surface treated CNTs which have been treated to induce negatively charged surface groups thereon, to nucleophilic substitution reaction with a compound carrying a functional group capable of reacting with the negatively charged groups on the CNT surface, whereby the compound chemically bonds to the CNT. The surface CNT treatment may be reduction. The compounds which are bonded to the CNT may be epoxy resins, bonded directly or through a spacer group. Bi-functional CNTs, grafted to both epoxy resins and other polymers such as polystyrene, are also made by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Benoit Simard, Jingwen Guan
  • Thermoelectric devices and applications for the same
    Patent number: 8455751
    Abstract: High performance thin film thermoelectric couples and methods of making the same are disclosed. Such couples allow fabrication of at least microwatt to watt-level power supply devices operating at voltages greater than one volt even when activated by only small temperature differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Larry C. Olsen, Peter M. Martin, John W. Johnston, John G. DeSteese
  • Phosphate and phosphonate-free automatic gel dishwashing detergent providing improved spotting and filming performance
    Patent number: 8454757
    Abstract: A phosphate and phosphonate-free gel automatic dishwashing detergent provides improved spotting and filming performance by including a spot reduction system that contains a combination of a polyacrylate and a carboxymethyl inulin. The gel detergent may also be free of a bleach ingredient (i.e., it does not contain either chlorine bleach or an oxygen bleach).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Access Business Group International LLC
    Inventors: Douglas K. Feenstra, Ronald C. Jackson
  • Benefit agent delivery compositions
    Patent number: 8450259
    Abstract: Benefit agent delivery compositions, compositions, packaged products and displays comprising such benefit agent delivery compositions, and processes for making and using such benefit agent delivery compositions, compositions, packaged products and displays. Such compositions have improved deposition and retention properties that may impart improved benefit characteristics to a composition and/or situs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Johan Smets, Pascale Claire Annick Van Steenwinckel
  • Multipurpose, non-corrosive cleaning compositions and methods of use
    Patent number: 8450257
    Abstract: Compositions comprising an alkanesulfonic acid and an organic nitrogenous base, and related methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Vitech International, Inc.
    Inventor: Rod Thomson
  • Non-isocyanate-based polyurethane and hybrid polyurethane-epoxy nanocomposite polymer compositions
    Patent number: 8450413
    Abstract: A fast curable non-isocyanate-based polyurethane- and polyurethane-epoxy network nanocomposite polymeric compositions are derived upon crosslinking a mixture comprising of natural or modified nano-clay [ionic phyllosilicate] with platelet thickness in the scale of ? (˜1 nm) and aspect ratio (length/thickness) higher than 10 (nm)] preferably natural or modified montmorillonite with either a monomer(s) or oligomer(s) bearing at least one cyclocarbonate group or a mixture of the latter with an epoxy resin, with a hardener, which is a monomer or oligomer or mixtures therefrom, bearing primary and/or secondary amino groups. The use of the nanoclays reduces the gel time and increases the adhesion of the cured polyurethane and polyurethane/epoxy hybrid and also reduces its water absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas LLC
    Inventors: Constantinos D. Diakoumakos, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev
  • Foaming hand sponge for bodily cleansing with color change indicator
    Patent number: 8440606
    Abstract: A cleansing product suitable for making the cleaning of both inanimate and animate surfaces more fun and effective for children is disclosed. Specifically, the cleansing product is capable of expanding in volume under certain temperature conditions, and in some embodiments, can additionally include a coloring agent, providing a color change to indicate when sufficient cleansing has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Stacy Averic Mundschau, Scott W. Wenzel, Michael Ralph Lostocco, William Clayton Bunyard, Jian Qin
  • Liquid hard surface cleaning composition
    Patent number: 8440604
    Abstract: A liquid hard surface cleaning composition comprising melamine foam fibers and a formaldehyde scavenger. The liquid hard surface cleaning composition comprises melamine foam fibers that comprise less than about 100 ppm of formaldehyde in solution after 7 days of storage at 50° C. A process of cleaning a hard surface using a liquid hard surface cleaning composition that comprises melamine foam fibers and a formaldehyde scavenger. The use of a formaldehyde scavenger in a liquid hard surface cleaning composition comprising melamine foam fibers, to provide a liquid hard surface cleaning composition showing no or low levels of formaldehyde generation upon storage of the composition over prolonged periods of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Barger, Jacqueline Marie Duderstadt, Denis Alfred Gonzales, Stefano Scialla
  • Detergent formulations for machine dishwashing comprising hydrophilically modified polycarboxylates
    Patent number: 8440601
    Abstract: A mixed powder or mixed granule for use in detergent formulations for machine dishwashing contains the following components: a) from 10 to 95% by weight of a copolymer of a1) from 50 to 93 mol % of acrylic acid and/or of a water-soluble salt of acrylic acid, a2) from 5 to 30 mol % of methacrylic acid and/or of a water-soluble salt of methacrylic acid, and a3) from 2 to 20 mol % of at least one nonionic monomer, wherein monomers a1) to a3) are copolymerized in a random or block manner, b) from 5 to 80% by weight of a complexing agent selected from the group consisting of a glycine-N,N-diacetic acid derivative and glutamic acid N,N-diacetic acid and salts thereof, c) from 0 to 20% by weight of a polyethylene glycol, of a nonionic surfactant or of a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tanja Seebeck, Juergen Tropsch, Lars Kissau