Patents Examined by Michael Pepitone
  • Patent number: 9760003
    Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a pattern and an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition that excels in the limiting resolving power, roughness characteristics, exposure latitude (EL) and bridge defect performance. The method of forming a pattern includes (1) forming an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition into a film, (2) exposing the film to light, and (3) developing the exposed film with a developer containing an organic solvent. The actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains (A) a resin containing a repeating unit with a structural moiety that is configured to decompose when exposed to actinic rays or radiation to thereby generate an acid, and (B) a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Iwato, Hidenori Takahashi, Shuji Hirano, Sou Kamimura, Keita Kato
  • Patent number: 9757493
    Abstract: Disclosed are cement products, methods of forming cement using the cement product, and methods of using the cement product in orthopedic and dental applications. Generally, the disclosed cement product includes a first component and a second component. The first component comprises a polymerizable resin comprising ethylenic unsaturated double bond, a suitable glycidyl group and/or a suitable isocyanate group. The second component includes a compound comprising more than one type of amine selected from the group consisting of primary amine, secondary amines, tertiary amines and quaternary amines. Alternatively, the second component includes a compound comprising a suitable mercapto (SH—) group, a hindered amine or a dimethylthiotoluenediamine (DMTDA). Optionally, the cement product includes a filler and/or a bioactive component to promote bone formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Juchui Ray Lin, Edward S. Ahn, Brian M. Schlossberg
  • Patent number: 9724276
    Abstract: Dental materials may be made from polyhydric phenols that are non-genotoxic and exhibit estrogenic activity less than that of bisphenol S, while exhibiting properties such as strength and flexibility comparable to those of conventional BPA-derived dental materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Valspar Sourcing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Niederst, Richard H. Evans, Robert M. O'Brien, Kevin Romagnoli, Carl Cavallin, T. Howard Killilea, Mark S. Von Maier
  • Patent number: 9718975
    Abstract: A radiation curable ink composition includes a first 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl compound. The first 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl compound is present in the radiation curable ink composition at a concentration above 0.5 wt %. A hindered amine group of the first 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl compound is substituted with only carbon or hydrogen and is a solid at 20 degrees centigrade and does not include carbon to carbon double bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Bruce A. Nerad
  • Patent number: 9714359
    Abstract: The present invention is a composition comprising a stable aqueous dispersion of polymer particles and a sorbate ester, which is a liquid at 20° C. and has a molecular weight in the range of 125 to 500 g/mol. The composition of the present invention provides a way to enhance film formation of coatings prepared using relatively high Tg latexes without the aid of high volatile organic content (VOC) coalescents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Selvanathan Arumugam, John Ell, Ralph C. Even, Brandon Rowe
  • Patent number: 9708425
    Abstract: A polyacrylate is obtained by radical polymerization of at least one acrylate monomer (Ac) in the presence of a polymeric photoinitiator. The polymeric photoinitiator is a co-polymer of at least one photoinitiator monomer (A) with at least one monomer (B), and optional additional monomers (C). Rapid polymerization of the acrylate monomer is provided. A method produces a polyacrylate using the polymeric photoinitiator as described, and a polymeric photoinitiator is used as the photoinitiator of radical polymerization of acrylate monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Niels Joergen Madsen, Christian B. Nielsen, Petr Sehnel, David George Anderson
  • Patent number: 9708503
    Abstract: An aqueous binder system including a mixture of urea-formaldehyde resin and water-dispersible polyester resin. A combination of the binder system applied to fiber insulation, a composite glass mat, glass/polyester mat, polyester mat, or substrate of a coated abrasive product. Fiber insulation, a composite glass mat, glass/polyester mat, polyester mat, or coated abrasive product with the binder system including urea-formaldehyde resin and water-dispersible polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HEXION INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Bear, Gregory D. Briner, Thomas L. McNeal
  • Patent number: 9701818
    Abstract: A producing method for fruit and vegetable fresh packing material has steps of (1) mixing porous granules, material and water, (2) blending the porous granules, material and water until the water is removed to form a dry mixing powder, and (3) mixing the dry mixing powder with plastic matrix material and forming plastic granules. Thus, a bag or a packing material may be produced using the plastic granules by standard plastic producing methods, such that the bag or packing material with an outstanding fruit preservation ability may be produced by a very simple way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Plastics Industry Development Center
    Inventors: Hsiang-Jung Tseng, Chao-Shuan Chang, Ming-Hsien Sung
  • Patent number: 9700651
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a bearing material having excellent wear-resistance and oxidation resistance. The method of producing a bearing material 10 according to the present invention comprises molding a substrate 12 containing a radical scavenger and a polymer material; washing at least a part 16 of the substrate 12 with a washing liquid; and grafting a polymer chain having a phosphorylcholine group from at least the part 16 of the surface after washing so as to form a polymer film 30 on at least the part of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Kyomoto, Shihori Yamane, Kenichi Saiga
  • Patent number: 9701810
    Abstract: A solventborne pigment dispersion having a volatile organic chemical (VOC) content that is less than 250 g/L for tinting solvent-based surface coatings is formulated using a vegetable oil-derived solvent component that is one or more methyl esters of vegetable oils, an acrylic resin containing at least 60% solids, one or more highly concentrated surfactants containing up to 100% by weight of active constituents and that contains no PMA or free aromatic moieties, and one or more organic pigments or one or more inorganic pigment, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Chromaflo Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yamini Patel, Steven Paul Riccardi, Daniel Goldberg, Jadel Baptista, Jr., Luc Driessen
  • Patent number: 9683141
    Abstract: Provided are an adhesive composition which has high holding strength and leaves no residual glue by using a polyolefinic polymer, and an adhesive tape using the same. A polyolefin which satisfies the following conditions (a-1), (b1), and (b2):(a-1) the relationship between the limiting viscosity and the stereoregularity is represented by the formula (i): ?20×?+56?mmmm??20×?+64 (wherein ? represents the limiting viscosity measured in tetralin at 135° C., and mmmm represents the meso pentad fraction (mol %)); (b1) the meso pentad fraction (mmmm) is from 20 to 60 mol %; and (b2) the limiting viscosity [?] measured in tetralin at 135° C. is from 0.01 to 2.0 dL/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Minami, Kazuhiro Hashima, Masami Kanamaru
  • Patent number: 9682019
    Abstract: An aqueous dental glass ionomer composition comprising (a) a reactive particulate glass, (b) a linear or branched polymer comprising acidic groups, which is reactive with the particulate glass in a cement reaction, whereby the linear or branched polymer comprising acidic groups has a polymer backbone and optionally pendant groups, (c) optionally dispersed nanoparticles comprising grafted linear or branched polymer chains comprising acidic groups, and having a polymer backbone characterized in that a polymer backbone of the linear or branched polymer of component (b) and/or, if present, the grafted Sinear or branched polymer chains of component (c) are obtainable a process comprising (i) cyclopolymerizing or cyclocopolymerizing one or more compounds of the following formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Dentsply DeTry GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim E. Klee, Oliver Elsner, Sven Pohle, Helmut Ritter, Dominika Bernert
  • Patent number: 9675529
    Abstract: Provided are novel high refractive index monomers, and dental resins containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Ann R. Fornof, Larry R. Krepski, William H. Moser
  • Patent number: 9668946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dental restorative material which comprises a thermolabile or photolabile polymerizable compound of Formula I: [(Z1)m-Q1-X)]k-T-[Y-Q2-(Z2)n]l??Formula I, in which T represents a thermolabile or photolabile group, Z1 and Z2 in each case independently represent a polymerizable group selected from vinyl groups, CH2?CR1—CO—O— and CH2?CR1—CO—NR2— or an adhesive group selected from —Si(OR)3, —COOH, —O—PO(OH)2, —PO(OH)2, —SO2OH and —SH, wherein at least one Z1 or Z2 is a polymerizable group, Q1 in each case independently is missing or represents an (m+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, Q2 in each case independently is missing or represents an (n+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, X and Y in each case independently are missing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Thorsten Bock, Urs Karl Fischer, Ulrich Salz, Volker Rheinberger, Robert Liska
  • Patent number: 9670319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel polyamide synthesized from biobased monomers. The novel polyamide comprises the repeating unit of formula (I) below: Formula (I), in which R represents a covalent bond or a divalent hydrocarbon-based chosen from saturated or unsaturated aliphatics, saturated or unsaturated cycloaliphatics, aromatics, arylaliphatics and alkylaromatics. The present invention also relates to the process for preparing the said polyamide, to its uses, and to articles and compositions comprising the polyamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Stéphane Jeol, Floryan Decampo, Leon Zhu
  • Patent number: 9663640
    Abstract: There are provided rubber compositions comprising an elastomer comprising polychloroprene; reinforcing fibers chosen from aramid fibers, carbon fibers, polyester fibers, glass fibers, nylon fibers and mixtures thereof, and/or nanometric filamentary structures chosen from nanowires, nanorods, nanofibers, nanoribbons, nanotubes and mixtures thereof, said nanometric filamentary structures being functionalized or unfunctionalized; and a filler chosen from carbon black and silica. These compositions, when cured, comprises at least one set of characteristics chosen from those described in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SOUCY TECHNO INC.
    Inventors: François Bédard, Denis Dubé, Lyle MacDonald, Jean-Damien Coué
  • Patent number: 9657147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparation a glycolide polyester by ring opening polymerization characterized in that glycolide monomer with optional co-monomer(s) of cyclic ester(s) is/are subjected to ring opening polymerization in the presence of a dispersion stabilizer and a catalyst, said catalyst being selected for precipitating glycolide homopolymer or copolymer from solvent, said solvent being selected so that the glycolide monomer and the optional co-monomer(s), the dispersion stabilizer and the catalyst are soluble therein but said glycolide homopolymer or copolymer is non-soluble. The present invention further relates to an in situ ring opening polymerizing process product, and to use of said glycolide polyester, and to further processing of said glycolide polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY
    Inventors: Jun Shan, Mika Härkönen, Jarmo Ropponen, Ali Harlin, Harri Heikkinen, Virpi Rämö, Thomas Gädda, Leena Nurmi, Pia Willberg-Keyriläinen
  • Patent number: 9644096
    Abstract: A discrete nanostructure formed by a method comprising providing an aliphatic multi-block copolymer. The aliphatic multi-block copolymer includes at least one polyester block and at least one functionalized polycarbonate block. The aliphatic multi-block copolymer, a deprotonating agent and water are mixed to form an aqueous mixture. The aqueous mixture is maintained at a reaction temperature suitable to result in self-assembly of the multi-block copolymer into nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: XEROX CORPORATION, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
    Inventors: Andrew J. Myles, Karen A. Moffat, Valerie M. Farrugia, Jordan H. Wosnick
  • Patent number: 9642932
    Abstract: A bone cement comprising an acrylic polymer mixture which is formulated to have a relatively high viscosity for a relatively long window, due to distributions of molecular weights and/or sizes of acrylic beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mordechay Beyar, Oren Globerman
  • Patent number: 9642927
    Abstract: Unscented and low scented malodor control compositions are provided. The malodor control compositions are suitable for a variety of applications, including use on plastic films or in fabric and air freshening products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Judith Ann Hollingshead, Steven Anthony Horenziak, Zaiyou Liu, Michael-Vincent Nario, Christine Marie Readnour