Patents Examined by Michael Forrest
  • Patent number: 11826730
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a precursor of a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide, a method for preparing thereof, a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide, and a method for preparing thereof. An embodiment of the present invention provides a precursor of a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide comprising CuFeO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
    Inventors: Jae Sung Lee, Yohan Choi
  • Patent number: 11814549
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly, bio-based binder system that is useful for the formation of fiberglass insulation, the system includes: A) an aqueous curable binder composition, which includes a carbohydrate and a crosslinking agent; and B) a dedust composition, which includes a blown, stripped plant-based oil and optionally at least one emulsifying agent. The bio-based binder system is typically heated to form a cured binder system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Frank P. Lochel, Jr., John Carl Tolfa
  • Patent number: 11813592
    Abstract: Redox catalysts having surface medication, methods of making redox catalysts with surface modification, and uses of the surface modified redox catalysts are provided. In some aspects, the redox catalysts include a core oxygen carrier region such as CaMnO3, BaMnO3??, SrMnO3??, Mn2SiO4, Mn2MgO4??, La0.8Sr0.2O3??, La0.8Sr0.2FeO3??, Ca9Ti0.1Mn0.9O3??, Pr6O11??, manganese ore, or a combination thereof; and an outer shell having an average thickness of about 1-100 monolayers surrounding the outer surface of the core region. The outer shell can include, for example a salt selected such as Li2WO4, Na2WO4, K2WO4, SrWO4, Li2MoO4, Na2MoO4, K2MoO4, CsMoO4, Li2CO3, Na2CO3, K2CO3, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Fanxing Li, Luke Michael Neal, Yunfei Gao, Seif Yusuf, Ryan Dudek
  • Patent number: 11806690
    Abstract: A filter aid composition may include a first acid-treated silica-based filter aid having a first particle size distribution and a second acid-treated silica-based filter aid having a second particle size distribution. A method of making a filter aid composition may include providing a first silica-based filter aid having a first particle size distribution, providing a second silica-based filter aid having a second particle size distribution, and blending the first silica-based filter aid with the second silica-based filter aid to form the filter aid composition. A method of filtering a fluid may include providing a filter aid composition including a first acid-treated silica-based filter aid and a second acid-treated silica-based filter aid and filtering the fluid through the filter aid composition. The filter aid composition may have a multimodal particle size distribution such that the first particle size distribution has a d50 greater than the second particle size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Imerys USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Taniguchi, Larisa Tihomirov
  • Patent number: 11807538
    Abstract: A method for removing phosphorus and boron impurities in an industrial silicon melt by secondary refining is provided. According to the present disclosure, inorganic zinc chloride is adopted as an impurity removal medium and is quickly decomposed into zinc and chloride ions at high temperatures; the phosphorus and boron impurities can react with the zinc and chloride ions to yield low-melting and high-melting compounds during contact with a silicon melt, the low-melting compounds volatilize and escape from the industrial silicon melt at the high temperature of the secondary refining. The high-melting compounds are segregated at the grain boundary along with silicon solidification and removed by crushing and pickling, or sink to the very bottom of the silicon melt and are removed by cutting off a deposition layer at a bottom of a silicon ingot after the silicon melt is solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dawei Luo, Ke Rong, Zijie Gao, Jiabao Deng
  • Patent number: 11772978
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing mesoporous silica microparticles comprising the steps of: preparing a sol from an ammonium catalyzed hydrolysis and condensation reaction of a pre-sol solution comprising a silica precursor and a structure directing agent dissolved in a mixed solvent system comprising an alcohol and water to produce mesoporous particles of silica with an average diameter of up to about 50 ?m; hydrothermally treating the particles to increase the pore size; treating the particles to remove residual structure directing agent; and further increasing the pore size using controlled dissolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: University College Cork-National University of Ireland, Cork
    Inventors: Justin Holmes, Michael Morris, John Hanrahan, Donal Keane, Mark Copley
  • Patent number: 11767224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a means capable of suppressing the formation of fine particles in a method for producing a silica sol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIMI INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawasaki, Shogo Tsubota, Masaaki Ito, Jun Shinoda, Keiji Ashitaka
  • Patent number: 11760653
    Abstract: This invention relates to azirconium hydroxideor zirconium oxide comprising, on an oxide basis, up to 30 wt % of a dopant comprising one or more of silicon, sulphate, phosphate, tungsten, niobium, aluminium, molybdenum, titanium or tin, and having acid sites, wherein the majority of the acid sites are Lewis acid sites. In addition, the invention relates to a catalyst, catalyst support or precursor, binder, functional binder, coating or sorbent comprising the zirconium hydroxide or zirconium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Magnesium Elektron Limited
    Inventors: Hazel Stephenson, Iryna Chepurna, Deborah Jayne Harris, David Scapens
  • Patent number: 11717808
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction method carried out in liquid and/or gas phase under irradiation, using a photocatalyst containing a first semiconductor, particles comprising one or more metallic-state elements M, and a second semiconductor SC, wherein the method is carried out by contacting a feedstock containing the CO2 and at least one sacrificial compound with the photocatalyst, then irradiating the photocatalyst such that the CO2 is reduced, and oxidising the sacrificial compound in order to produce an effluent containing at least in part C1 or above carbon molecules other than CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Sophie Bernadet, Antoine Fecant, Denis Uzio, Renal-Vasco Backov, Serge Ravaine
  • Patent number: 11708273
    Abstract: A silica sol dispersed in a nitrogen-containing solvent and a silica-containing resin composition containing a nitrogen atom-containing polymer. A silica sol including silica particles containing aluminum atoms and having an average primary particle diameter of 5 to 100 nm, the silica particles being dispersed in a nitrogen-containing solvent, wherein the aluminum atoms are bonded to the surfaces of the silica particles in an amount in terms of Al2O3 of 800 to 10,000 ppm/SiO2. The silica particles are bonded to a silane compound or a hydrolysate of the silane compound. The nitrogen-containing solvent is an amide solvent. The nitrogen-containing solvent is dimethylacetamide, dimethylformamide, N-methylpyrrolidone, or N-ethylpyrrolidone. The insulating resin composition includes the silica sol and a nitrogen-containing polymer. The nitrogen-containing polymer is polyimide, polyamide, polyamic acid, polyamideimide, polyetherimide, or polyesterimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Kuroiwa, Hikaru Onishi, Yuki Sugawara, Naohiko Suemura
  • Patent number: 11702345
    Abstract: Stable suspensions of silica particles in water-immiscible polar organic liquids are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Frédéric Colbeau-Justin, Marc-David Braida, Mathilde Mignard
  • Patent number: 11679985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a black powder comprising silica particles that contain carbon. Each of the silica particles is single-layered. The content of carbon contained in the surfaces of the silica particles measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 1% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: UBE EXSYMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori Miyoshi, Kenta Gotou
  • Patent number: 11652207
    Abstract: An LFP electrode material is provided which has improved impedance, power during cold cranking, rate capacity retention, charge transfer resistance over the current LFP based cathode materials. The electrode material comprises crystalline primary particles and secondary particles, where the primary particle is formed from a plate-shaped single-phase spheniscidite precursor and a lithium source. The LFP includes an LFP phase behavior where the LFP phase behavior includes an extended solid-solution range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: A123 Systems LLC
    Inventors: Larry Beck, Jennifer Wilson, Chuanjing Xu, Zhong-You Shi, Maha Hammoud
  • Patent number: 11639292
    Abstract: Particulate composite materials and devices comprising the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Henry R. Costantino, Abirami Dhanabalan, Avery J. Sakshaug
  • Patent number: 11618684
    Abstract: Porous amorphous silica can be obtained from siliceous plant matter containing non-siliceous inorganic substances. The siliceous plant matter is soaked in an aqueous solution which includes a chelating agent. The chelating agent is present in an amount which helps to extract at least some of the non-siliceous inorganic matter. The aqueous solution is then separated from the siliceous plant matter. Beneficial properties are imparted to the siliceous plant matter by controlling the amount of at least one preselected non-siliceous inorganic substance in the siliceous plant matter. At the end of the process, the siliceous plant matter is heat treated in the presence of oxygen at a temperature to produce the resulting amorphous silica having the beneficial properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KILT, LLC
    Inventors: Flavio Ernesto Ribeiro, Larry W. Shipley, Leo Gingras
  • Patent number: 11612869
    Abstract: To prevent solidified aluminum chloride from adhering to and accumulating on a pipe and also prevent stress-corrosion cracking in the pipe, a method for producing trichlorosilane includes a cooling step of cooling a discharge gas that is discharged from a fluidized-bed reactor and that contains the trichlorosilane, the cooling step involving causing a fluid to flow through a space (4) inside a side wall (3) of a pipe (10), the pipe being a pipe for discharging the discharge gas from the fluidized-bed reactor, in such a manner that the side wall (3) has a surface (1a) having a temperature of not lower than 110° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hirota, Katsuya Ogihara
  • Patent number: 11608449
    Abstract: A water shedding finish for aircraft or aerospace transparencies is prepared from a paraffin wax and at least a solvent linear or branched C6 to C8 alkane solvent. The finish may further include a surfactant and similarly the solvent may be present as a co-solvent system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Texstars, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald L. Meline, John Henry Sandoval
  • Patent number: 11598524
    Abstract: In a high-efficient clean, high-variable load rate coal-fired power generation system, through the internal thermal source SCR denitration catalytic module coupled with high temperature and low temperature storage tanks, the operating temperature of the internal thermal source SCR denitration catalytic module is controlled in a range of 300° C. to 400° C., ensuring that the SCR catalyst has high activity in full-working conditions. Moreover, the high temperature and low temperature storage tanks are coupled with the high-pressure heater group for steam turbine regenerative system, so that when the coal-fired unit needs to increase load rate, the thermal storage energy is quickly converted into output power. In addition, energy stored in the high temperature and low temperature storage tanks come from both the internal thermal source SCR denitration catalytic module and the thermal storage medium heater within the boiler, the operational flexibility and the boiler efficiency are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junjie Yan, Ming Liu, Jiping Liu, Daotong Chong, Qinan Xing, Chaoyang Wang
  • Patent number: 11596925
    Abstract: A method of producing a catalyst comprises generating an aerosolized flow of catalyst support particles, heating a catalytically active compound precursor to produce a catalytically active compound precursor vapor, contacting the aerosolized flow of catalyst support particles with the catalytically active compound precursor vapor, and condensing the catalytically active compound precursor onto the catalyst support particles to produce the catalyst comprising catalytically active compound deposited on surfaces of the catalyst support particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Maxim Bukhovko, Michele Ostraat
  • Patent number: 11590479
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an interior material having a surface layer which has visible light-responsive photocatalytic activity and which contains two types of titanium oxide microparticles, the two types of titanium oxide microparticles comprising first titanium oxide microparticles, in which a tin component and a transition metal component for enhancing visible light responsiveness (excluding iron group components) are in solid solution, and second titanium oxide microparticles, in which an iron group component is in solid solution; and a method for manufacturing the interior material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Furudate, Tomohiro Inoue