Patents Examined by Nathan M. Nutter
  • Patent number: 10858505
    Abstract: The invention provides ethylene-based composition comprising a blend of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity from 5 to 50 deciliters/gram; a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer having a density of from 0.850 to 0.910 g/cc; and, optionally, a fluoropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Dane Chang, Siddharth Ram Athreya, Ronald Wevers
  • Patent number: 10858461
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition contains components (A) to (D), wherein the content of the component (A), (B), (C) and (D) is, respectively, 26% by weight or more and 59% by weight or less, 2% by weight or more and 9% by weight or less, 16% by weight or more and 61% by weight or less and 11% by weight or more and 56% by weight or less, when the total amount of the components (A) to (D) is 100% by weight, and the ratio of the content of the component (C) to the content of the component (D) is over 1 and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsuya Kida
  • Patent number: 10844203
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition suitable for use in pipe applications, the composition comprising: an ultra-high molecular weight ethylene-based polymer having an intrinsic viscosity from 5 to 50 deciliters/gram; a polyethylene resin comprising a first molecular weight ethylene-based polymer component and a second molecular weight ethylene-based polymer component, wherein the polyethylene resin has a density from 0.930 to 0.960 g/cc; a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer having a density of from 0.850 to 0.910 g/cc; and, optionally, a fluoropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Dane Chang, Siddharth Ram Athreya, Ronald Wevers
  • Patent number: 10844146
    Abstract: A process to form an ethylene-based polymer, as described herein, in a tubular reactor system comprising at least three ethylene-based feeds, and at least four reaction zones, and where the weight ratio of “the ethylene-based feed to the second zone (EBF2)” to “the ethylene-based feed to the first zone (EBF1),” is from 0.50 to 1.10; and the weight ratio of “the ethylene-based feed to the third zone (EBF3)” to “the ethylene-based feed to the first zone (EBF1),” is from 0.40 to 2.50; in each zone, the polymerization takes place at a start temperature?135° C.; and (a) for three or more ethylene based feeds, the peak temperatures in the first and the second zones, are each from 200° C. to 250° C.; and/or (b) for four or more ethylene based feeds, the peak temperatures in the first, the second and the third zones, are each from 200° C. to 250° C.; and the differential in peak temperatures of the first three zones (TP1, TP2, TP3) meets at least one relationship described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Otto J. Berbee, Nhi T. Y. Dang, Cornelis J F Hosman, Joaquin Flores
  • Patent number: 10844206
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypropylene-based resin composition which exhibits mechanical properties such as excellent strength and more improved impact strength, and a molded article comprising the same. The polypropylene-based resin composition comprises: a polypropylene-based resin; and an olefin-based copolymer, and shows two or more elution temperatures at a predetermined temperature range when analyzing the olefin-based copolymer by temperature rising elution fractionation (TREF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyo Ju Kim, In Sung Park, Sang Eun Park, Hae Woong Park, Kyung Bok Bae, Choong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10836891
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising at least one oil, and a first composition comprising the following: A) a first composition A comprising an ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene interpolymer A, B) an ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene interpolymer B; and wherein the weight ratio of component A to component B is from 1/1 to 20/1; wherein the Mw of the ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene B is greater than the Mw of the first composition A; and wherein the composition has a Mooney Viscosity (ML1+4, 100 C) from 20 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tao Han, Colin LiPiShan, Isao Hattori
  • Patent number: 10829625
    Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition contains components (A), (B) and (C). A content of (A) is from 70 to 90 parts by weight, a content of (B) is from 10 to 30 parts by weight, and a content of (C) is from 1 to 5 parts by weight, when the total of the content of (A) and (B) is taken as 100 parts by weight. (A) polypropylene, (B) talc having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m to 8 ?m, (C) polyethylene glycol, wherein a molecular weight at the maximum point of refractive index intensity in a chromatogram obtained by gel permeation chromatography using a differential refractometer is from 2,000 to 4,000, and S2/S1 is from 1.3 to 2.0, where peak areas S2 and S1 are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NOF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuomi Mottate, Toru Tamura
  • Patent number: 10829622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cross-linkable rubber composition, a cross-linked rubber composition obtained by cross-linking such a rubber composition, a method of preparing a tire and a tire. A cross-linkable rubber composition comprises, per hundred parts by weight of rubber (phr): 100 phr of a diene-based elastomer component with an average molecular weight Mn in a range of ?100000 to ?5000000 g/mol and a homopolymer of polybutadiene, wherein the homopolymer of polybutadiene has an average molecular weight Mn in a range of ?10000 to ?45000 g/mol and a glass transition temperature Tg in a range of ??110° C. to ??60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: APOLLO TYRES GLOBAL R&D B.V.
    Inventors: Swarupini Ganesan, Sander Marinus, Hendrik Stevens
  • Patent number: 10822474
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing: a cellulose acetate in which the weight average polymerization degree is 120-330 and the degree of substitution of an acetyl group is 2.10-2.60; a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1000-30000; and a plasticizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Moriyama, Kenji Yao
  • Patent number: 10822533
    Abstract: Described herein is a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a high molecular weight fluorinated polymer having a Tg less than about 0° C. and a number average molecular weight greater than about 20 kilograms/mole; and a low molecular weight fluorinated polymer derived from an ethylenically unsaturated fluorinated monomer, wherein the low molecular weight fluorinated polymer has a Tg greater than about ?15° C. and a number average molecular weight less than about 18 kilograms/mole. Also described herein are articles comprising the pressure sensitive adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Francois C. O'Haese, Tatsuo Fukushi, Katherine A. Gibney, Klaus Hintzer, Tom Opstal, Jayshree Seth, David J. Yarusso
  • Patent number: 10800911
    Abstract: A heterophasic propylene polymerization material containing a propylene homopolymer component or a specific propylene copolymer component, and a specific ethylene-?-olefin copolymer component, in which (i) the amount of the xylene-soluble component is 40% by weight or more, (ii) the limiting viscosity [?]C X I S of the xylene-insoluble component is 1.50 dL/g or more, (iii) the ratio of the limiting viscosity [?]C X S of the xylene-soluble component to the limiting viscosity [?]C X I S of the xylene-insoluble component is 1.5 or less, and (iv) the content of monomer units derived from ethylene and ?-olefins having 4 to 12 carbon atoms in the xylene-insoluble component is 6% by weight or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hidekazu Yamada
  • Patent number: 10800910
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new heterophasic polypropylene composition showing a good balance between stiffness and impact at low haze, as well as to its use for injection molded articles. The present invention is also directed to provide such heterophasic polypropylene composition in a more simplified mode of production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Markus Gahleitner, Jingbo Wang, Elisabeth Potter
  • Patent number: 10793655
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polyolefin composition made from or containing: A) from about 60 to about 89% by weight based upon the total weight of the polyolefin composition of a copolymer of butene-1 with ethylene having a copolymerized ethylene content of up to about 18% by mole based upon the molar composition of the copolymer, and no melting peak detectable at the DSC at the second heating scan; and B) from about 11 to about 40% by weight based upon the total weight of the polyolefin composition of an ethylene polymer having density of from about 0.900 to about 0.970 g/cm3, measured according to ISO 1183 at 23° C.; wherein the amounts of A) and B) are referred to the total weight of A)+B) and the DSC second heating scan is carried out with a heating rate of 10° C. per minute. The composition is useful for preparing gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Roberta Marchini, Stefano Spataro, Stefano Pasquali, Gianluca Musacchi
  • Patent number: 10793704
    Abstract: A nitrile copolymer rubber composition has a nitrile copolymer rubber (A) containing 22 to 45 wt % of ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer units and a vinyl chloride resin (B) having an average polymerization degree of 1200 to 2200, wherein a ratio of content of the vinyl chloride resin (B) with respect to 100 parts by weight of the nitrile copolymer rubber (A) is 70 to 140 parts by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Yokoyama, Hiroyasu Nagamori
  • Patent number: 10786977
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a composite structures or sandwiches that may have a relatively high bending stiffness and may have a relatively light weight as well as related methods of use and fabrication of the composite sandwiches. For example, a composite sandwich may include a core structure sandwiched between a two composite skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BRIGHT LITE STRUCTURES LLC
    Inventor: Antony Dodworth
  • Patent number: 10787564
    Abstract: Described is a polyethylene composition comprising at least one polyethylene having a crystallinity of less than 60, or 55, or 50% and within a range from 0.2 wt % to 15 wt % of cyclic-olefin copolymer and within a range from 0.2 wt % to 15 wt % of hydrocarbon resin, by weight of the polyethylene composition. The polyethylene compositions can be formed into useful articles such as films and injection molded and thermoformed articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory K. Hall, Stefan B. Ohlsson, Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 10780680
    Abstract: A composite radius filler material is provided. The composite radius filler includes a resin, a first group of fibers dispersed within the resin, and a second group of fibers dispersed within the resin. The first group of fibers has a first length configured to facilitate orientation in a longitudinal direction. The second group of fibers has a second length that is shorter than the first length, with the second group of fibers configured to facilitate random orientation in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Weidong Song, Tia Benson Tolle, Jonathan D. Robbins, Jamie J. Langabeer
  • Patent number: 10780677
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a composite structures or sandwiches that may have a relatively high bending stiffness and may have a relatively light weight as well as related methods of use and fabrication of the composite sandwiches. For example, a composite sandwich may include a core structure sandwiched between a two composite skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BRIGHT LITE STRUCTURES LLC
    Inventor: Antony Dodworth
  • Patent number: 10781303
    Abstract: High flow nucleated heterophasic polyolefin compositions comprising a matrix comprising a propylene homo- and/or copolymer and an elastomeric alpha-olefin copolymer phase dispersed in the matrix, which have rather high melt flow rate, improved impact strength but also an excellent impact/stiffness balance and a process for the preparation of such a heterophasic polyolefin composition, articles made therefrom and uses of the heterophasic polyolefin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Claudia Kniesel, Minna Aarnio-Winterhof, Karlheinz Friedrich, Markus Gahleitner, Friedrich Berger
  • Patent number: 10774207
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a peroxide/nitrile dual cure fluoroelastomer composition able to provide for cured parts having improved thermal and water vapour resistance, to a method of curing the same and to cured articles obtained therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Bossolo, Claudia Manzoni, Matteo Fantoni, Stefano Arrigoni