Patents Examined by Peter D. Mulcahy
  • Patent number: 11401382
    Abstract: Thermoplastic polyamide particles comprising at least one polyamide and at least one polymeric ionic compound comprising imidazolium groups (imidazolium compound), the thermoplastic polyamide particles having an ellipsoidal or approximately ellipsoidal shape with the largest diameter of 1 to 100 mm, preferably 2 to 10 mm, more preferably 3 to 8 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martina Schoemer, Jean-Pierre Berkan Lindner, Simon Kniesel, Juergen Wiethan
  • Patent number: 11396000
    Abstract: The present application describes a microcapsule comprising: (i) a lipophilic core material, and (ii) a microcapsule shell, wherein microcapsule shell formed from oil-in-water emulsion polymerisation of monomer mixture consisting essentially of: (a) greater than 70 to about 99% by weight of at least one polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer, (b) about 1 to about 30% by weight of at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer or its ester, and (c) about 0 to about 30% by weight of at least one vinyl monomer. Also provides process for preparing the same and its method of use in various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ISP INVESTMENTS LLC
    Inventors: Kishor Kumar Mistry, Assim Fiaz, Abdul Wahab Hussain, Terry Crutcher
  • Patent number: 11384274
    Abstract: The diverting agent of the present invention contains resin particles of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin. The resin particles of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin are a particle mixture containing two or more types of resin particles having different particle diameters, and the diverting agent contains resin particles A of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin having a particle diameter of 1,700 ?m or more in a range of 5 mass % to 95 mass % and resin particles B of polyvinyl alcohol-based resin having a particle diameter of 250 ?m to 1,000 ?m in a range of 5 mass % to 95 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Fujita, Takahiro Saka, Chizuko Furo
  • Patent number: 11384187
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the process of obtaining random terpolymers based on itaconic acid or its isomers, aconitic acid or their isomers and sodium alkenyl sulphonates, through a polymerization in aqueous solution, via free radicals at acid pH in the range of 1.0 to 3.5 and as initiator a redox system. The random terpolymers are characterized for being tolerant to high concentrations of divalent ions, such as calcium, magnesium, strontium and barium. Their use as inhibitors of mineral scale such as calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate, strontium and barium, and clay dispersing, iron oxides, carbonate and calcium sulfate allows for their application in the reservoir or production rig, treated water, sea water and/or connate water can be used as means of transportation. The terpolymer can be used to inhibit and disperse mineral scales present in cooling system and boiler employed in the chemical and oil industry, and is compliant with environmental standards established internationally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO
    Inventors: Mirna Pons Jiménez, Raúl Hernández Altamirano, José Manuel Martínez Magadan, Alejandro Ramirez Estrada, Luis Silvestre Zamudio Rivera
  • Patent number: 11370873
    Abstract: A counter tapered thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising: (a) a counter tapered diblock A-[A/B] copolymer with a peak molecular weight from 20,000 to 250,000, which includes a monovinyl aromatic homopolymer block A with a peak molecular weight of at least 8,000 and a counter tapered copolymer block [A/B] with a vinyl content of at least 15 weight percent based on the amount of conjugated diene units in the diblock copolymer; and (b) a block copolymer selected from the group consisting of linear triblock copolymers having a peak molecular weight that is at least about 1.5 times the peak molecular weight of the counter tapered diblock A-[A/B] copolymer described in (a), multiarm coupled block copolymers having a peak molecular weight that is at least about 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Dynasol Elast¿meros, S.A. de C.V.
    Inventors: Sergio Alberto Moctezuma Espiricueto, Jesús Alberto Mexicano García, Elisa Tierrablanca Maldonado, Gabriel Hernández Zamora, Alejandro Claudio Esquivel de la Garza
  • Patent number: 11370913
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition having: at least one elastomer component selected from the group made of elastomeric polymers (A) each of which has a side chain containing a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety having a carbonyl-containing group and/or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below, and elastomeric polymers (B) each of which contains a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety and a covalent-bond cross-linking moiety in a side chain and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below; an organically modified clay, a content ratio of which is 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastomer component; and a polymer (Z) which is a polymer other than the elastomeric polymers (A) and (B), and an SP value of which is 9.0 or more and is greater by 0.5 or more than an SP value of the elastomer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Chino, Hiroaki Suzuki, Zhengzhe Jin, Yusuke Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11312862
    Abstract: A solid carrier component includes a liquid polydiorganosiloxane and an ethylene-based polymer. The solid carrier component is useful in processes for preparing wood plastic composite articles, such as building materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: James Keenihan, Marc-Andre Courtemanche, Igor Chorvath, Keith Bruce, Jodi Mecca
  • Patent number: 11248078
    Abstract: What are provided are colour-stable, low-salt nitrile rubbers and a process for production thereof under specific conditions for the coagulation and/or washing of the nitrile rubber. Additionally obtainable are the corresponding vulcanizable mixtures based on this nitrile rubber, a process for producing vulcanizates from these mixtures and the resultant vulcanizates having excellent processing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ARLANXEO DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Brandau, Andreas Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11237085
    Abstract: An article that can be used for biomaterial capture comprises (a) a porous substrate; and (b) borne on the porous substrate, a polymer comprising interpolymerized units of at least one monomer consisting of (1) at least one monovalent ethylenically unsaturated group, (2) at least one monovalent ligand functional group selected from acidic groups, basic groups other than guanidino, and salts thereof, and (3) a multivalent spacer group that is directly bonded to the monovalent groups so as to link at least one ethylenically unsaturated group and at least one ligand functional group by a chain of at least six catenated atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jerald K. Rasmussen, Catherine A. Bothof, George W. Griesgraber, Semra Colak Atan, James I. Hembre, Robert T. Fitzsimons, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11230618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modifier represented by Formula 1, a method of preparing the same, a modified conjugated diene-based polymer having a high modification ratio which includes a modifier-derived functional group, and a method of preparing the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ji Eun Kim, Won Taeck Lim, Won Mun Choi, Dae June Joe
  • Patent number: 11230631
    Abstract: To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having high transparency and excellent surface scratch resistance from the viewpoint of the design properties and a transparent resin sheet. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer (4) containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component, in which a value of a peak area ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer (4) is x?0.4. Herein, S040, S130, and Sam in the following expression (1) are peak areas determined from an X-ray diffraction spectrum obtained by measuring the transparent resin layer with an X-ray diffractometer, S040 is the peak area from the Miller index (040) of polypropylene ? crystals, S130 is the peak area from the Miller index (130) of the polypropylene ? crystals, and Sam is the peak area of an amorphous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyamoto, Masashi Hattori, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11230085
    Abstract: An asphaltic sheet comprising an asphaltic component including an asphalt binder and expandable graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Firestone Building Products Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wensheng Zhou, Donald R. Kirk, James Young, Robert Anderson, Joseph Standeford, Lance Black
  • Patent number: 11225558
    Abstract: A graphene-reinforced polymer matrix composite comprising an essentially uniform distribution in a thermoplastic polymer of about 10% to about 50% of total composite weight of particles selected from graphite microparticles, single-layer graphene nanoparticles, multi-layer graphene nanoparticles, and combinations thereof, where at least 50 wt % of the particles consist of single- and/or multi-layer graphene nanoparticles less than 50 nanometers thick along a c-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventors: Thomas J. Nosker, Jennifer K. Lynch-Branzoi, Bernard H. Kear, Justin W. Hendrix, Gordon Chiu
  • Patent number: 11203673
    Abstract: A thermoplastic composite material comprising, a fiber bundle having a polypropylene emulsion impregnated therein and having a plurality of reinforcing fibers lined up in a predetermined direction, and satisfies the following conditions (1) to (4); and a formed body: (1) A void content of the thermoplastic composite material is 3% or less, (2) A fiber volume fraction of the thermoplastic composite material is 40% or more and 70% or less, (3) A bending strength of a laminated body, in which a plurality of layers of the thermoplastic composite material has been laminated so that the reinforcing fibers would be lined up in one direction, when bent in the fiber-axis direction and measured in conformity to JIS K7074, is 250 MPa or more, and a bending elastic modulus of the laminated body is 90 GPa or more, and (4) A variation coefficient of the bending strength, when measured at N=5 or more and calculated in conformity to JIS K7074, is within 7%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoko Yoshizaki, Makiko Nakano, Takayori Ito, Yukihiro Ikura, Takahiro Iida, Yasumasa Morishima, Hidekazu Hara
  • Patent number: 11186709
    Abstract: A carrier material for producing a decorated wall or floor panel, as well as the corresponding wall or floor panel, may comprise a matrix material and a solid material. The matrix material is present from ?25 wt.-% to ?55 wt.-% and the solid material is present from ?45 wt.-% to ?75 wt.-% of the carrier material. The matrix material and the solid material together may be present in an amount of ?95 wt.-% of the carrier material. The solid material is formed to at least 50 wt.-% of a solid composition consisting of at least a first layered silicate powder and a second layered silicate powder. The matrix material is formed to at least 50 wt.-% by a plastic composition consisting of a homopolymer and at least a first copolymer and a second copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Akzenta Paneele + Profile GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hannig, Egon Hoff
  • Patent number: 11189399
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a paste containing polytetrafluoroethylene which can be formed into a molded polytetrafluoroethylene article having a significantly small thickness of polytetrafluoroethylene and is less likely to cause defects in molding; and a method of producing the paste. The present invention provides a method of producing a paste, including the steps of coagulating primary particles of polytetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous dispersion that contains the primary particles and water to form slurry that contains secondary particles of polytetrafluoroethylene and water or secondary particles of polytetrafluoroethylene floating in water; and adding an organic solvent to at least one of the slurry and the secondary particles of polytetrafluoroethylene floating in water to provide the paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Kohei Yasuda, Kazuya Kawahara, Haruhisa Masuda, Masayuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11181707
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a polymer composition. The polymer composition includes from 0% to 80% by weight of a polyolefin component and from 20% to 100% by weight of a thermoplastic elastomer component. The polymer composition has an elastic modulus of less than 1500 MPa at ?40° C. as measured using dynamic mechanical analysis according to ASTM D4065. Further, the polymer composition has a coefficient of thermal expansion as averaged over the temperature range of ?40° C. to 25° C. of more than 120×10?6/K when measured according to ASTM E831, and the polymer composition has a thermal contraction stress of no more than 4.0 MPa at ?40° C. as measured using dynamic mechanical analysis. Additionally, embodiments of an optical fiber cable having a cable jacket made of the polymeric composition are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anne Germaine Bringuier, Xiaole Cheng, Yanfei Li
  • Patent number: 11142590
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solidification process of the natural rubber latex by means of polyquaternary polymers. The process of the present invention has the advantage to not require the addition of acids and/or salts, with an evident saving in terms of cost for the reagents. Furthermore, in such a way neither the neutralization step of the rubber nor the treatment of the processing water before their disposal are required. The process of the present invention is suitable both for the continuous and batchwise embodiment, with evident advantages as far as its industrial application is concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: VERSALIS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Giacomo Gagliardi, Giovanni Regattieri, Emanuele Mazzotti
  • Patent number: 11118090
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a stabilized hot melt adhesive containing a) one or more hot melt adhesive materials and b) a stabilizer composition. The one or more hot melt adhesive materials a) include a polyolefin, a styrene-isoprene-styrene block co-polymer, a styrene-butadiene-styrene block co-polymer, a polyacrylate, an acryl-copolymer, an ethylene vinyl acetate, a polyamide, a polyester, a polyurethane, a polyimide, a silane terminated polyolefin, a silane terminated poly-ether, and a silane terminated polyurethane. The stabilizer composition includes a component (B), which is a polymeric sterically hindered amine, and a component (C), which is a specific sterically hindered phenol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernd Hoevel, Angelika Roser, Claudia Fischer, Heinrich Martin
  • Patent number: 11065841
    Abstract: A method for producing an asphaltic sheet, the method comprising of providing an asphaltic sheet; and applying expandable graphite particles to the asphaltic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Firestone Building Products Company, LLC
    Inventors: Wensheng Zhou, Donald Kirk, James Young, Robert Anderson, Joseph Standeford, Lance Black