Patents Examined by Thuy-Ai N Nguyen
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Patent number: 10570353Abstract: Cleaning compositions which can be used to clean surfaces and treat materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Ascent IP Holdings, LLCInventor: Jeffrey Wycoff
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Patent number: 10544285Abstract: An impact-modified composition and a method of making an impact-modified composition are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes reacting a phosphazene material with an acrylamide material to form a functionalized phosphazene material; initiating a polymerization reaction on a reaction mixture comprising the functionalized phosphazene material and one or more monomers to form an impact-modified phosphazene material; and adding the an impact-modified phosphazene material to a polymeric material.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brandon M. Kobilka, Joseph Kuczynski, Jacob T. Porter, Jason T. Wertz
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Patent number: 10526713Abstract: A device for in-situ production of caustic and increasing alkalinity of a detergent and methods for increasing alkalinity of a detergent are disclosed. In particular, in situ electrochemical conversion of bicarbonate, sesquicarbonate or carbonate sources into caustic provides a safe means for increasing alkalinity of a detergent for a variety of cleaning applications. The invention further discloses methods for cleaning using the electrochemically enhanced detergent according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Kim R. Smith, Erik C. Olson
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Patent number: 10479853Abstract: Provided is a surface-treated carbon nanotube having few surface fractures, not reducing the molecular weight of the resin to be mixed and having excellent extrudability. In the surface-treated carbon nanotube, the thermal reduction amount at 600° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere is 0.2 to 40%, the surface oxygen concentration measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is 1.5 to 40 atm % and the surface sulfur concentration is less than 0.1 atm %.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATIONInventors: Aya Takagiwa, Teruaki Sakuma, Yasukazu Shikano, Kazuya Noda
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Patent number: 10472585Abstract: A water-based lubricant for plastic working of a metallic material is obtained by adding to a water-based medium: (A) a polymer and/or a salt thereof containing a carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof as a constituent monomer; (B) an oxoacid of tungsten, of silicon, or of phosphorus, or a condensate thereof, and/or a salt thereof; (C) a hydroxide of an alkali metal; and (D) a lubricating component (D), and the solid content weight ratio (A)/[(A)+(B)+(C)+(D)] is 0.05 to 0.4.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Mochizuki, Manabu Kumagai, Yuta Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10457796Abstract: Provided are a polyamide resin composition and a molded article produced therefrom. The polyamide resin composition includes: a base resin including a polyamide resin having an intrinsic viscosity (IV) of about 0.9 dL/g or less and milled glass fibers; and carbon nanotube flakes having a size of about 1.0 mm to about 5.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Lotte Advanced Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung Rae Kim, Ik Mo Kim, Chan Gyun Shin
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Patent number: 10428236Abstract: Provided is a polyurethane urea resin composition exhibiting UV absorption-agent resistance that achieves both durability and liquid resistance against UV absorption agents included in cosmetic products or the like, and that is capable of being used for a molded body and a coating material which exhibit excellent properties such as abrasion resistance, mar resistance, oleic acid resistance, water resistance, stain resistance, and weather resistance. The polyurethane urea resin composition exhibiting UV-absorption-agent resistance is obtained by reacting a polyol (A), a polyisocyanate (B), a molecular weight modifier (C), and a diamine (D), and can be used as a molded body and a member-coating material to impart durability and liquid resistance against UV absorption agents.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATIONInventors: Tadayuki Kawaguchi, Takahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10344171Abstract: A dispersion includes a carbonaceous nanoparticle, a dispersant including a graft polymer having a poly(alkylene glycol) side chain, and a polar solvent. An article coated with the dispersion and a method of making the dispersion are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Hendrik John, Claus-Peter Klages, Sven Hartwig
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Patent number: 10266798Abstract: A composition for use on a hard surface. The composition has: (i) at least 7.5 wt. % of at least one surfactant selected; (ii) a transport rate factor of less than about 55 seconds; and (iii) an adhesion time of greater than about 8 hours.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Russell B. Wortley, Michael E. Klinkhammer, John R. Wietfeldt, Francis J. Randall
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Patent number: 10253169Abstract: Flame resistant compositions based on nylon-6 (PA 6) or nylon-6,6 (PA 66) may include melamine cyanurate, titanium dioxide, glass fibers, and non-fibrous and non-foamed ground glass having a specific particle size distribution, geometry and optionally sizing. Methods for producing the composition are also provided, as well as use of the compositions for production of products for the electrical industry, preferably electrical components such as residual current circuit breakers and other circuit breakers.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Jochen Endtner, Matthias Bienmueller, Fabio Passeri
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Patent number: 10233341Abstract: Ink includes water, a coloring material, and a copolymer including a first structure unit represented by the following Chemical formula 1 and a second structure unit including an anionic group. In the Chemical formula, R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an alkylene group having 2-4 carbon atoms, and Y represents a substituted or non-substituted straight-chain alkylene group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuusuke Koizuka, Kazukiyo Nagai, Tomoyuki Shimada, Shigeyuki Harada, Akihiko Matsuyama, Yoshiki Yanagawa, Koichiro Oyama, Takuya Yamazaki, Akiyoshi Sabu
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Patent number: 10221330Abstract: Provided is an active energy ray curable resin composition for the formation of a hard coating layer on a thermoplastic resin product, where the hard coating layer is one having good resistance to scratches and abrasion and strong resistance to impact and weather or one having very good resistance to scratches and abrasion. The composition contains a urethane (meth)acrylate (A) having an average number of functional groups of 3 to 6 and having, in molecular skeleton, an organic group corresponding to a tricyclodecanedimethanol represented by following Formula (1), except for removing two hydrogen atoms of two hydroxyl groups therefrom; and a microparticulate silica (S) having a volume median diameter of 1 to 100 nm as determined by dynamic light scattering. The composition contains 10 to 40 percent by weight of the urethane (meth)acrylate (A) and 10 to 60 percent by weight of the microparticulate silica (S) based on the total weight of non-volatile matter in the composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: DAICEL-ALLNEX LTD.Inventor: Fumio Tanabiki
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Patent number: 10214617Abstract: A method for generating a dissolving rubber compound in asphalt is described. The method includes receiving an asphalt compound and heating the asphalt compound to approximately 320° F. to 420° F. The method then proceeds to add a tire rubber compound to the asphalt compound. The asphalt compound and the tire rubber compound are mixed for approximately 5 minutes to 240 minutes. The dissolved rubber compound is generated by heating a mixture of the asphalt compound and the tire rubber to approximately 525° F.-700° F. The dissolved rubber compound is then cooled.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: ASPHALT SCIENCES, LLC.Inventors: Joseph Randall Bruns, Hashem Hashemi
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Patent number: 10179195Abstract: The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Massachusetts Institue of TechnologyInventors: Christopher J. Bettinger, Joost P. Bruggeman, Lino da Silva Ferreira, Jeffrey M. Karp, Robert S. Langer, Christiaan Nijst, Andreas Zumbuehl, Jason Burdick, Sonia J. Kim
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Patent number: 10174139Abstract: In the context of a polyacrylate-based composition, the intention is to allow controlled thermal crosslinking. This is accomplished by provision of a crosslinker-accelerator system for the thermal crosslinking of polyacrylates having functional groups suitable for entering into linking reactions with epoxide groups, comprising at least one substance comprising at least one epoxide group (crosslinker) and at least one substance conforming to the general formula (I) NR3??(I), in which the radicals R independently of one another are a hydrogen atom or an organic radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, with at least one of the radicals R being an organic radical with 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and comprising at least one alcoholic OH group.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: TESA SEInventors: Alexander Prenzel, Sarah Bamberg, Jennifer Beschmann, Marten Papenbroock
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Patent number: 10160880Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an amphoteric polymer having pendant acid groups, or salts thereof, and pendant mono- or dialkylamino ethylene oxide groups or alkylammonium ethylene oxide groups characterized by either of the following formulas: where R1-R3 and X? are as defined herein. The composition of the present invention improves hiding efficiency for coating compositions formulated using associative rheology modifiers, binders, and titanium dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Kathleen A. Auld, Ward T. Brown, Kevin J. Henderson, Anurima Singh, Antony K. Van Dyk, Lidaris San Miguel Rivera
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Patent number: 10144844Abstract: Described is a paint composition comprising: a hydroxyl group-containing resin (A); a crosslinking agent (B), which reacts with hydroxyl groups; a radical copolymer (C); and an organosilica sol (D); wherein the radical copolymer (C): (a) has a monomer composition, with respect to the total mass of radically polymerizable monomer, of from 70.0 to 99.8 mass % unsaturated carboxylic acid amide, from 0.2 to 10 mass % radically polymerizable organosiloxane and from 0 to 29.8 mass % other radically polymerizable monomer, (b) is of weight average molecular weight from 1,500 to 15,000, and (c) has a hydroxyl group value of from 10 to 50 mgKOH/g, wherein the organosilica sol (D) is of average particle diameter from 1 to 30 nm, and wherein the solid fraction mass ratio represented by {(C) component+(D) component}/{(A) component+(B) component} is from 3 to 30% and the solid fraction mass ratio represented by {(C) component/(D) component} is from 0.2 to 5.0.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Hiroki Mizutani, Yutaka Takano, Katsuhiko Ohsawa
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Patent number: 10144674Abstract: A method for preparing a ceramic from an inorganic base material in the form of a powder with a high boiling point, including a step in which the powder of the inorganic base material is mixed with a second inorganic component which is also in powder form and which serves as a dopant for the inorganic base material. The dopant comprises a single inorganic material or a mixture of at least two inorganic materials that have a dopant effect on the inorganic base material. The method also includes a sintering step performed at a high temperature. Owing to the high density thereof, the resulting ceramics are suitable for use as a target element. The films and electrodes obtained from said ceramics have particularly beneficial properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBECInventors: Guy Campet, Iyad Saadeddin, Karim Zaghib
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Patent number: 10119023Abstract: Polymer composition (C) comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone) (P1) chosen from polyetheretherketones, polyetherketoneketones and polyetheretherketone-polyetherketoneketone copolymers, a polyphenylsulfone (P2), and a reinforcing fiber (F), with the exception of a polymer composition consisting of 90 wt %, based on the total weight of the polymer composition, of a polymer blend consisting of 85 parts by weight of a polyphenylsulfone and 15 parts by weight of a polyetheretherketone, and 10 wt %, based on the total weight of the polymer composition, of glass fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Solvay Advanced Polymers, L.L.C.Inventors: Shari Weinberg, Shawn Shorrock, Mohammad Jamal El-Hibri
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Patent number: 10113092Abstract: Multicomponent crosslinkable compositions based on organyloxysilane-terminated polymers free of toxicologically objectionable catalysts and isocyanates exhibiting good tensile shear strength are useful for adhesive bonding and sealing of substrates.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AGInventors: Volker Stanjek, Bernd-Josef Bachmeier, Lars Zander