Patents Examined by Patricia L. Hailey
  • Patent number: 11590478
    Abstract: An electrocatalyst includes a carbon substrate, metal oxide particles dispersed on the carbon substrate, and metal catalyst particles. The metal catalyst particles are metal substitutions in the metal oxide particles, or adsorbed on the metal oxide particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Dongmok Whang, Mansu Kim
  • Patent number: 11577228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of catalysts, and provides a porous layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) and a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method includes the following steps: (1) mixing silica microspheres, a transition metal salt and an elemental chalcogen, and pressing to obtain a tablet, the silica microspheres having a same or different particle diameters; and (2) sintering the tablet under hydrogen, and removing the silica microspheres to obtain the porous layered TMD. The porous layered TMD prepared by the method of the present invention has a high lattice edge exposure, which provides more active sites and higher catalytic activity, so the porous layered TMD can effectively catalyze the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or sulfides to sulfoxides under visible light irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Cheng Wang, Weiming Xu, Huilin Zheng, Pengfei Zhang, Hongyun Shen, Xiaoling Li
  • Patent number: 11571690
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method of producing a modified double metal cyanide complex, a method of producing a monol or polyol that includes providing the modified double metal cyanide complex, an alkylene oxide polymerization process that includes providing the modified double metal cyanide complex, a batch, semi-batch, or continuous manufacturing process that includes providing the modified double metal cyanide complex, and a polyether polyol prepared using the batch, semi-batch, or continuous manufacturing process that includes providing the modified double metal cyanide complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: David K. Steelman, David A. Babb, Joost Depicker, Jasmijn Kuijper, Mari S. Rosen
  • Patent number: 11571689
    Abstract: The invention is mainly related to a synthesis method of supported two-dimensional transition metal carbides for Fenton-like catalysis, which includes the following steps: (1) preparing two-dimensional transition metal carbides powders; (2) dispersing the two-dimensional transition metal carbides powders into intercalants solution to perform an intercalation reaction, and then centrifuging, washing, and freeze-drying to obtain intercalated products; (3) dispersing a certain quality previously obtained intercalated powders into ultrapure water and heating for pre-reaction, and then adding hydrogen peroxide solution to the pre-reacted mixed solution under ice-water bath for secondary etching, resting, centrifuging and gently decanting a supernatant to obtain the final Fenton-like catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yue Jiang, Sijie Lin
  • Patent number: 11571684
    Abstract: A method of turning a catalytic material by altering the charge state of a catalyst support. The catalyst support is intercalated with a metal ion, altering the charge state to alter and/or augment the catalytic activity of the catalyst material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: David Kaphan, Massimiliano Delferro, Alon Chapovetsky, Cynthia Jeanne Jenks, Christopher S. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11559792
    Abstract: An oxygen storage material (OSM) includes a zinc manganese iron oxide (ZMF) and an alkali metal base on the ZMF surface. The ZMF has a spinel structure. The alkali metal containing ZMF can be formed to have a weight percent of alkali metal up to about two percent. The alkali metal carbonate is retained on the ZMF surface upon heating to a temperature greater than 1,000° C. and stabilizes the ZMF to the cycling of an oxygen rich and oxygen lean atmosphere. The OSM additionally catalyzes the oxidation of hydrocarbons and CO and catalyzes the reduction of NOx for use in catalytic converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Torin C. Peck, Benjamin A. Grayson, Blake A. Graham, Charles Alexander Roberts, Krishna Gunugunuri
  • Patent number: 11559791
    Abstract: A catalyst composition including nickel foam and a plurality of carbon-doped nickel oxide nanorods disposed on the nickel foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Yat Li, Tianyi Kou, Mingpeng Chen
  • Patent number: 11559790
    Abstract: A process for dehydrogenating alkane or alkylaromatic compounds comprising contacting the given compound and a dehydrogenation catalyst in a fluidized bed. The dehydrogenation catalyst is prepared from an at least partially deactivated platinum/gallium catalyst on an alumina-based support that is reconstituted by impregnating it with a platinum salt solution, then calcining it at a temperature from 400° C. to 1000° C., under conditions such that it has a platinum content ranging from 1 to 500 ppm, based on weight of catalyst; a gallium content ranging from 0.2 to 2.0 wt %; and a platinum to gallium ratio ranging from 1:20,000 to 1:4. It also has a Pt retention that is equal to or greater than that of a fresh catalyst being used in a same or similar catalytic process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lin Luo, Devon C. Rosenfeld, Andrzej M. Malek
  • Patent number: 11554363
    Abstract: Electrocatalysts composed of single atoms or metal clusters dispersed over porous carbon support were prepared by a lithium-melt method. The new catalysts demonstrated high selectivity, high Faradic efficiency and low overpotential toward to the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Di-Jia Liu, Tao Xu, Haiping Xu
  • Patent number: 11547984
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel catalyst for hydrogenation for hydrogenating at least one of dicarboxylic acid or its acid anhydride. The catalyst for hydrogenation according to a first embodiment is obtained by supporting at least one of palladium or platinum, and cobalt on a carrier, and subjecting the resulting carrier to a reduction treatment at 400 K or higher. The catalyst for hydrogenation according to a second embodiment is obtained by supporting at least one of palladium or platinum, and molybdenum on a carrier, and subjecting the resulting carrier to a reduction treatment at 500 K or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Nakamura, Keiichi Tomishige, Yoshinao Nakagawa, Masazumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 11547069
    Abstract: Water purification particles have porous particles and photocatalyst particles formed of titanium-based compound particles that are supported on the porous particles, have absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and have an absorption peak at 2,700 cm?1 to 3,000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, and a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group is bonded to the surface of each of the titanium-based compound particles through an oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwanaga, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Sakae Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11524278
    Abstract: Generally, it is disclosed a catalyst for use in a hydrotreating hydrocarbon feedstocks and the method of making such catalyst. It is generically provided that the catalyst comprises at least one Group VIB metal component, at least one Group VIII metal component, about (1) to (about (30) wt % C, and preferably about (1) to about (20) wt % C, and more preferably about (5) to about 15 wt % C of one or more sulfur containing organic additive and a titanium-containing carrier component, wherein the amount of the titanium component is in the range of about (3) to (about (60) wt %, expressed as an oxide (Ti02) and based on the total weight of the catalyst. The titanium-containing carrier is formed by co-extruding or precipitating a titanium source with a Al203 precursor to form a porous support material comprising Al203 or by impregnating a titanium source onto a porous support material comprising Al203.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ALBEMARLE EUROPE SRL
    Inventors: Jana Juan Alcaniz, Jacob Arie Bergwerff, Kar Ming Au Yeung, Wilhelmus Clemens Jozef Veerman
  • Patent number: 11524280
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a low-platinum catalyst based on nitride nanoparticles and a preparation method thereof. A component of an active metal of the catalyst directly clades on a surface of nitride particles or a surface of nitride particles loaded on a carbon support in an ultrathin atomic layer form. Preparation steps including: preparing a transition-metal ammonia complex first, nitriding the obtained ammonia complex solid under an atmosphere of ammonia gas to obtain nitride nanoparticles; loading the nitride nanoparticles on a surface of a working electrode, depositing an active component on a surface of the nitride nanoparticles by pulsed deposition, to obtain the low platinum loading catalyst using a nitride as a substrate. The catalyst may be used as an anode or a cathode catalyst of a low temperature fuel cell, has very high catalytic activity and stability, can greatly reduce a usage amount of a precious metal in the fuel cell, and greatly reduces a cost of the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shijun Liao, Xinlong Tian, Junming Luo, Rong Chen
  • Patent number: 11511994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carbon nanotubes having a pore volume of 0.94 cm3/g or more, and being an entangled type, a method of manufacturing the same, and a positive electrode for a primary battery which comprises the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Yeon Kang, Hyun Joon Kang, Ki Soo Lee, Soon Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 11511270
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the preparation of a cobalt containing catalyst, a precipitate as an intermediate product, a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst and a process for producing normally gaseous, normally liquid and optionally normally solid hydrocarbons from synthesis gas. The precipitate and catalyst comprise crystalline Co(OH)(CO3)0.5, the crystals are needle shaped and have a surface area of at least 80 m2/g dry precipitate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Jurjen Meeuwissen, Erwin Roderick Stobbe
  • Patent number: 11504698
    Abstract: A Ni—Al2O3@Al2O3—SiO2 catalyst with coated structure is provided. The catalyst has a specific surface area of 98 m2/g to 245 m2/g, and a pore volume of 0.25 cm3/g to 1.1 cm3/g. A mass ratio of an Al2O3 carrier to active component Ni in the catalyst is Al2O3:Ni=100:4˜26, a mass ratio of the Al2O3 carrier to an Al2O3—SiO2 coating layer is Al2O3:Al2O3—SiO2=100:0.1˜3, and a molar ratio of Al to Si in the Al2O3—SiO2 coating layer is 0.01 to 1. Ni particles are distributed on a surface of the Al2O3 carrier in an amorphous or highly dispersed state and have a grain size less than or equal to 8 nm, and the coating layer is filled among the Ni particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHANXI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongxiang Zhao, Haitao Li, Lili Zhao, Hongxi Zhang, Zijin Sun, Yongzhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11498126
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a component, in particular a vehicle component or an engine component, such as a piston of an internal combustion engine. The method comprises forming a first body region, in particular by means of casting or forging. The method includes forming a second body region, which is connected to the first body region, from an aluminium alloy or an iron-based alloy or a copper-based alloy by means of an additive manufacturing method. The second body region is alloyed in such a manner that it has higher thermal stability, higher mechanical strength or higher wear resistance upon tribological stressing than the first body region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventors: Matthias Korn, Peter Scharf
  • Patent number: 11493274
    Abstract: The present invention describes an improved process for the commercial scale production of high-quality catalyst materials. These improved processes allow for production of catalysts that have very consistent batch to batch property and performance variations. In addition these improved processes allow for minimal production losses (by dramatically reducing the production of fines or small materials as part of the production process). The improved process involves multiple steps and uses calcining ovens that allow for precisely control temperature increases where the catalyst is homogenously heated. The calcining gas is released into a separate heating chamber, which contains the recirculation fan and the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Greyrock Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Schuetzle, Dennis Schuetzle
  • Patent number: 11491468
    Abstract: Supported catalyst for use in a process for the synthesis of methanol, characterized in that the supported catalyst comprises indium oxide in the form of In2O3 and at least one noble metal being palladium, Pd, wherein both indium oxide and at least one noble metal are deposited on a support remarkable in that the supported catalyst is a calcined supported catalyst comprising from 0.01 to 10.0 wt. % of palladium and zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) in an amount of at least 50 wt. % on the total weight of said supported catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: TOTAL SE, ETH ZURICH
    Inventors: Joseph Stewart, Daniel Curulla-Ferre, Javier Perez-Ramirez, Cecilia Mondelli, Matthias Frei
  • Patent number: 11484867
    Abstract: An electrocatalyst comprises a crumpled transition metal dichalcogenide support loaded with catalytic metal nanoparticles through spontaneous reduction reactions. The support can be prepared by hydrothermal conversion of 2D nanosheets to 3D hierarchically crumpled sheets. As an example, using crumpled MoS2 as a support, highly tunable Ru loadings were obtained using the electrostatic interaction between MoS2 and RuCl3 in solution. Control over Ru loading was leveraged to produce Ru—MoS2 electrocatalysts that demonstrate different nitrogen reduction reaction activities, and which show varying resistance to electrochemical sintering and deactivation. Further, these high surface area materials can be utilized for many applications, including electrocatalysts, supercapacitors, and batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Percival, James Eujin Park, Ivana Gonzales, Stanley Shihyao Chou